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PRTSC KEY IN WINDOWS

Windows 95 and Windows 3.x changed the operation of the "PrtSc" key from how it used to operate under DOS. In old DOS, this key could be used to print the screen to your printer. This was a nice way of getting a screen dump. Under Windows, pressing this key now saves an image of your screen in the Windows ClipBoard. In order to print this image you would have to then go into a program where you can "paste" the clipboard into a document. (For example, the Paint program that comes as one of the Windows accessories would work for this.) However, you can also find various freeware and shareware programs that give you back the DOS capability of the "PrtSc" key. Two of them I've seen on the club bulletin board are "PTRSCR95.ZIP" and "PRTNOW.ZIP". The first is a shareware program, the second is a free utililty from Pc Magazine.