On Tue, 7 Jan 2020 10:35:42 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: >... and Vista has a nice facility to select a dataset name "intelligently" >(for subsequent copy and paste). > x3270 is similar. Default is "/tmp/x3scr/$UNIQUE.html"
>I too really dislike bitmap screen shots from customers and associates >(because you can't then cut and paste as text a dataset name, register >contents, hex string, or similar). > Exactly. ISPF Edit's hex representation isn't very useful for copy-and-paste. Worse for UTF-8 files -- designers lost sight of the objective. XEDIT does better. (ObShmuel.) I reiterate my praise of x3270's HTML. Browse and copy. >-----Original Message----- >From: Don Poitras >Sent: Tuesday, January 7, 2020 10:24 AM > >The Vista TN3270 emulator can copy a screen (or part of a screen) as text. > Is that Vista's or Windows support? >-----Original Message----- On Tue, 7 Jan 2020 19:13:18 +0100, R.S. wrote: >> >> Can other emulators copy a screen as text? > >Obviously YES. > That's less than entirely obvious. If the emulator has no built-in Copy facility the user might resort to the desktop's. If the emulator displays the screen image as a graphic the user might need to resort to OCR. Some installations regard impeding screen copy as a security feature, or intellectual property protection. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
