Re: [NTLK] newton keyboard screenshot DVD

From: Eric L. Strobel (fyzycyst_at_home.com)
Date: Tue Jan 22 2002 - 13:58:01 EST


at the temporal coordinates: 1/22/02 1:48 PM, the entity known as Laurent
Daudelin at laurent_daudelin_at_fanniemae.com conveyed the following:

>
> On 22/01/02 13:41, "Eric L. Strobel" <fyzycyst_at_home.com> wrote:
>
>> at the temporal coordinates: 1/22/02 1:35 PM, the entity known as Laurent
>> Daudelin at laurent_daudelin_at_fanniemae.com conveyed the following:
>>
>>>
>>> On 22/01/02 13:30, "Robert Benschop" <rbenschop_at_mac.com> wrote:
>>> [snip!]
>>>> Both Command-Shift-3 and Command-Shift-3 (screenshot of the complete screen
>>>> and of a user defined part of the screen)
>>> [snip!]
>>>
>>> What do you mean, Robert? Command-Shift-3 and Command-Shift 3??? Do you mean
>>> "Command-Shift-3" and "Command-Caps Lock-Shift-3"?
>>>
>>
>> No, I believe that's supposed to be Cmd-Shift-3 and Cmd-Shift-4, where the
>> latter brings up the little crosshairs and you can drag that across the
>> screen to define what's captured in the screen shot.
>
> I'm not positively sure, but I kinda remember that "Cmd-Shift-4" used to
> send the content of the screen to the default serial printer, back in the
> old days of the ImageWriter (I, yes I of course) or ImageWriter II...
>

That matches my memory also. Which reminds me... I wonder if there'd be
some way get the folks that write the print drivers to patch in a sound.
Wouldn't that be just great if your Mac made that nifty dot-matrix printer
sound while it was busy spooling the file to your ink-jet? :-)

- Eric.

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Eric Strobel (fyzycyst_at_NOSPAM^mailaps.org)

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