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

Frank Slootweg <[email protected]> 18 Feb 2026 19:02:16 GMT
Newsgroups alt.comp.os.windows-xp,alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.msdos.batch.nt
Organization NOYB
Message-ID <[email protected]>
A little earlier, I wrote:
[...]

>   The format should be <news:<MID>>, i.e.
> 
>        <news:[email protected]>
> 
>   The 'news;' part is required, otherwise it's ambiguous, because it
> also looks like an e-mail address.
> 
>   It's defined in the schemes for URI, in whatever the correct RFC might
> be these days. I.e. like 'http://' for a web URL, 'mailto:' for an
> e-mail address, etc..

  I did a quick Google search on 'where is the 'news:' scheme defined'
and Google's 'AI Overview' says it's primarily defined in RFC 5538 and
gives some examples:

Format Examples
news:[email protected] (refers to a specific article).
(i.e. the format I gave)
news:comp.lang.python (refers to a newsgroup).
news:* (refers to all available newsgroups).

Optional Authority: A server can be specified (e.g.,
news://news.example.com/example.group), but if omitted, it defaults to
the user's configured news server.

'RFC 5538 The 'news' and 'nntp' URI Schemes, April 2010'
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5538>

  2010, so should have settled by now! :-)

>   Some newsreaders try to do the right thing when the scheme  part is
> absent, but <news:<MID>> is the only correct way. We'll see if
> Thunderbird et al understand it.

  Nope, my stone-age version (60.9.0) doesn;t.

>   AND, there of course is still the issue that the newsreader must be
> able to actually fetch ('article'/'head'/'body'commands) the article/
> headers/body. I.e. like an 'http://' URL might fail, so might a 'news:'
> one, for all kinds of reasons.