File Formats: SCR

MS-Word Capture File
Last updated: Jan 14, 1998 


Basic Description
      SCR Files are written by a screen shot utility called CAPTURE, included in 
      some of the DOS Versions of Microsoft Word. SCRs are derived PCX files. 
      Notice that CAPTURE can also write ASCII dumps in .LST files. 


Basic File Format
      Same as PCX except:  
      < Signature > = $CD.  
      < BytesPerScanline > may be odd, therefore there are no filler bytes in 
      the Raster Data. Many programs will still read it though.  
      < Compression > = 1  Data is always stored RLE Encoded.


Raster Data encoding
      see PCX for details. Lines are never padded with a zero.


Portability
      SCR files are a specialty to Microsoft's CAPTURE. You should put no effort 
      to write files of this type, and little to read them, since the DOS Word 
      close to becoming an extinct species.


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