Need to quickly send a graphic image from one Windows user to another? Use SNAP!, a small, free program available in the archive SNAP.ZIP in the Windows file area on the BBS. This small Windows program is designed to grab a section of any screen in Windows and save it to the Clipboard. Normally you only have two ways in Windows to save a screen, the PrintScreen key (saves the whole screen to the clipboard) and Alt+PrintScreen (saves the active window to the clipboard). SNAP gives you the ability to mark any portion of the screen within its expandable border, then save it to the Clipboard. Once in the Clipboard, the image can be manipulated with Clipboard itself or saved directly as a Clipboard (.CLP) file. This .CLP file can then be sent to other users who can then load it into Clipboard and view it without any other fancy display programs, or paste it into applications such as Paintbrush or Write. One nice feature of .CLP files is that by using an archiver program such as PKZip, they compress down to very small sizes. For example, a 200K 256 color .CLP file zipped down to almost 8k! If you are sending files by modem, that's a big savings. We've discovered that .CLP files compress much tighter than more common graphic file types such as .PCX. A .CLP Windows Clipboard file is an intermediate file meant to go from one application to another. However, since it can load and save its own images, it's a handy and easy way to send images from one Clipboard to another Clipboard. For more information, see the SNAP.TXT file that is included in SNAP.ZIP and your Windows manual for Clipboard operation. One caveat: The receiving Clipboard should be in the same graphics mode as the sending Clipboard.