Method for printing a screen image

摘要

A method for printing a screen image for the Unix operating system which is simple to perform by a user is based upon known techniques for establishing a pseudo terminal. Under the method of the present invention, a master process (56) and a client process (52) controlled by the master process (56) are established within the processor (12). The master process (56) determines whether the stroke is from a print screen key (38) or some other key. If the stroke is from the print screen key (38), the master process (56) reads the screen image from a screen buffer (44), and converts the screen image to a printable graphic. A printer (42) prints the printable graphic. <IMAGE>