From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp,comp.os.msdos.misc Subject: Re: DOS frontend programming problem Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 11:48:42 +0200 Organization: NetVision Israel Message-ID: References: <7rl95f$akq$1 AT nnrp1 DOT deja DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: is.elta.co.il Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: news.netvision.net.il 937388849 23190 199.203.121.2 (15 Sep 1999 09:47:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse AT netvision DOT net DOT il NNTP-Posting-Date: 15 Sep 1999 09:47:29 GMT X-Sender: eliz AT is In-Reply-To: <7rl95f$akq$1@nnrp1.deja.com> Lines: 15 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk 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.