Re: Screen capture of 4gl Screens

Posted in 1994

Kerry Sainsbury — Thu, 17 Mar 1994 00:16:07 -0500 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

In article <CMnp89.44I@newcastle.ac.uk>, Stephen Foster wrote: > > > I am running INFORMIX 4.11 RDS on SCO UNIX 3.2.4 and would > like to incorperate screen shots into my documentation. > > Does anyone know how this can be done, so I can import the > screen shots into a Word for Windows document. > You can output screens to a file by setting an environment variable called DBSCREENOUT to a file name (I use "screen.out") set DBSCREENOUT screen.out The run your application program and press <CTRL>P. The current screen will be appended to "screen.out". You'll still have to do some messing around, splitting "screen.out" into individual screens, but it's the only method I know of. - Kerry S. kerry@kcbbs.gen.nz