Accessing Table Data in Screen Display Possible?

When I try to add a printer (in the Wizard I think), the drop-down list doesn't
seem to offer any way to choose printing ASCII to a file. Please explain how
to do this. I'm using Windows 98.

Thanks,

V Harris

From: RobertVA

Have you tried adding a "printer" in Windows configured to send ASCII
text to a file? That often gets the output in a file, but if the program
was coded to use tabs or a proportional font the columns might not line
up. Make sure you set a ".TXT" extension when you are prompted for the
file name.

Sometimes Installing an Apple Laserwriter set to "print to file" can
even produce files you can access with a vector graphics program like
Corel Draw. There's probably a way some applications could block these
tricks though.

VHarris001 wrote:

I use a mapping program put out by the local county GIS department that
allows
me to select a large number of properties in a particular order and display
the
property data in a table on the screen. I can then print the screen, but
there
is no feature to 'export' the data to a file.

I have tried to find a newly created file on the hard disk that might be
temporarily storing the data while it is being displayed, but there doesn't
seem to be a file, so the data must be stored in memory while being
displayed.

I'm wondering if there is some way to capture the data that is diplayed on
the
screen -- not as a graphics file, but as the actual ascii code that is
being
displayed.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, as there are many records
that
need to be taken from the display in display order and put into a text
file.
If I can just capture the data in the order it is displayed on the screen,
that
would mean I could build the new database in short order. But if not, I'll
have to manually key in the data in display order into the database.

Thanks,

V Harris