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From: davew@waterw.com
Subject: Desktop Screenshots 1.0
The Mac has always had the ability to capture the screen to a picture
file via COMMAND-SHIFT-3 and with System 8 also via COMMAND-SHIFT-4. They
work great but have the annoying habit of saving the screenshots at the
top level of the hard drive. With a little research I discovered that
there is in fact a way to specify where the pictures are saved and thus
was born Desktop Screenshots. A tiny extension that redirects those
picture files right to the desktop for easy access.
Desktop Screenshots uses an undocumented feature of the standard system
screen capture code. This feature appears to be available starting with
at least System 7.6.1. Earlier system versions might work too but I
haven't tested them. No system software modifications are made so it
won't hurt anything to try it out, it will either work or not.
Desktop Screenshots is FREEWARE (share and enjoy.)