Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 11:42:59 +0500
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Subject: Re: screen
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"John" <fubu36 AT stny DOT rr DOT com> proclaimed:

> 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?

Yes.

char x = _farpeekb(_dos_ds, BASEMEM + (y - 1) * 160 + (x - 1) * 2);

And BASEMEM = 0xb8000 for color and 0xb0000 for monochrome.