DECW$PRINTSCREEN under OpenVMS 7.3

[David HESKETH]

I have read the reply to question WIZ_2575 which explains how to activate a print screen output directly under DCL. However several flags do not work for me (E.G. "-G" for gray scale output, -f for scaled op), also window size seems to be limited to about 510 x 510 pixels!
Can anyone enlighten me please? What am i doing wrong?
Thank you in advance for any pertinent help.

David Hesketh

[John Gillings]

David,

Could you please post your exact command and a description of the results?

Also post a description of what you're trying to achieve.

[David HESKETH]

Hi John

First time user and i'm not sure this is how i get a message to you! Trying to setup a simple one click method for our Satellite Control Centre operators to get a grey scale hard copy of the complete screen from either of the 2 screens attached to a DS10 WS under OpenVMS 7.3. Basically the same thing i can do quite simply in several clicks using the printscreen GUI.

$ prscr :== $DECW$PRINTSCREEN
$ prscr -G

this gives a display of the Usage text for dxprint.

$ prscr -G -x n -y m !where n & m are small integers

this gives following text twice: X Toolkit Warning: Shell widget "PrintScreen" has an invalid geometry specification: "-x"

In addition the flag "-P " just creates a PS file with the name of the queue.

I've tried many other combinations, some work as expected, others not.

I hope this clarifies my pb. Thank you in advance for any help you may have.

Best wishes

David

[Edwin Gersbach_2]

David,

You have to put uppercase switches in doublequotes! Try this:

$ MC DECW$PRINTSCREEN -x100 -y100 "-G" "-P SYS$PRINT"

If the doublequotes are omitted, lowercase is assumed where -g might be some undocumented geometry syntax and -p is just ignored.

Edwin

[David HESKETH]

Edwin

Cant thank you enough, works great now, easy when you know how! Do you know how to copy the second screen?

Many, many thanks,

David

[Uwe Zessin]

I think you have to address this through a different DISPLAY environment. Can't test it right now, but I would try something like this:

$ set display /create /transport=local/screen=? ...
$ prscr ...

[David HESKETH]

Uwe

My great thanks to you too. All ok now. Thank you all for your help, saved me a lot of hassle.

David

[David HESKETH]

Answers were fully to the point and allowed me to implement a solution. Thanks again all.