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- [from VOL7N1.ARC, PC Magazine Jan 88?
- Downloaded from SEMPER BBS 10 Dec 87.
- ]
-
- CAPTURE your own
- HELP screens
-
- CAPTURE instantly turns the custom help menus, tables, or anything you type on
- your screen into files you can pop up with the HELP.COM program in this
- issue's PC Lab Notes.
-
- «MDUL»«MDNM»CAPTURE
- Command
- Tom Kihlken 1988/No. 1 (Utilities)
-
- Purpose: Saves the text and attribute bytes on the screen to a
- 4,000-byte file that the HELP.COM program (PC Lab Notes, 1988/No. 1) can pop
- up either from within an application or at the DOS prompt.
-
- Format: CAPTURE
-
- Remarks: CAPTURE is a memory-resident screen-saving program. Its
- default actuating key is Alt-C, though this can be changed, as described
- below. The program takes no parameters and saves to filenames SCREEN.000,
- SCREEN.001, etc. It will not overwrite existing filenames, but increments
- the number in the extension instead. Filenames stored by CAPTURE can then be
- renamed for use by HELP.COM. CAPTURE files may also be combined into
- multiple-page help screens (up to the 14-screen limit of HELP.COM), by using
- the DOS COPY /B option for copying binary files.
-
- For example,
-
- COPY /B SCREEN.000+SCREEN.001+SCREEN.002 HELP.HEP
-
- would combine the first three CAPTUREd help screens into the file,
- HELP.HEP, which might be one of the files in a \HELP subdirectory.
-
- The Alt-C trigger key may be changed with DEBUG, by entering the
- following commands:
-
-
- DEBUG CAPTURE.COM
- E 268 SS ;Your Scan code
- E 27D MM ;Your Shift mask
- W
- Q
-
- Tables containing the entry to make for SS (the scan code) and for MM
- (the shift mask) above are contained in the body of the article.