From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp,comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject:	Re: DOS frontend programming problem
Date:	Wed, 15 Sep 1999 11:48:42 +0200
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On Tue, 14 Sep 1999 arcadepreserv AT hotmail DOT com wrote:

> I want to do a frontend to a dos command, that loads a program into a
> device. This command displays the percentage of load achieved
> continously on the screen. Now I want to make a nicer DOS GUI to this
> command, without having the source for the command. I want to read out
> the percentage written to the screen and draw a bar in the GUI.

If you cannot change the original program, you will need to hook
some interrupts (Int 16h, for example) and intercept the text that
it writes to the screen.

Is this DJGPP-related?  If not, please remove comp.os.msdos.djgpp
from followups.

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