From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
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Subject: Re: screen
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On Wed, 29 Mar 2000 22:40:44 GMT, "John" <fubu36 AT stny DOT rr DOT com> wrote:

>Is there a way to get what ever is printed to the screen at a certain x,y
>position and store it to a variable?

Depends on the screen mode.
In text mode, you can use farptr to get an alias for 32 KB of memory
starting at b8000.
In graphics mode, you can generally blit from the screen, but you
would need to write an OCR engine to make any sense of it.

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