Re: why graphical screenshot? from a command prompt console window?

On 2/10/2026 2:04 AM, Maria Sophia wrote:
> Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
>>
>> Well, sometimes this is easier for the discussion. I have met users who
>> don't quite understand how to capture text directly in a Command Prompt
>> window. Old-time DOS or terminal users surely know how.
> 
> I've always been the best of the best in almost everything that I do.
> 
> Point being I must have posted, oh, I don't know, maybe thousands of
> screenshots over the decades to these newsgroups, where I think only the
> best of the best (of the best) post screenshots to help explain things.

Kids that grow up in the era of GUI most likely don't understand console 
text, and the difference between graphical text and real text. Letting 
them to take a screenshot is easier for them to ask for help.

You can always take the chance to teach them how to cut-and-text from a 
console window, that there is something called text in the old computing 
days.

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