Re: Stupid thinkpad tricks. TP701 & Win 3.1

[Don Whiteside <whiteside@acm.org>]

At 04:56 PM 8/28/96 -0700, Stephen Mosley wrote:
>When ever I do the keyboard retract, the 
>clipboard (In Windows 3.1) magically gets filled with an image of 
>whatever is on the screen, suitable for pasting into your favorite image 
>processing software!
>
>Either this is a strange bug on my computer, or it is some kind of 
>feature. All I know is that I can reliably reproduce this effect numerous 
>times.

The printscreen does that in windows versions 3.1 and up. Somehow that key
must be getting pressed, or the character code is somehow put in the kb buffer.

Donald Alan Whiteside
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