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On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Damian Yerrick wrote:

> 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.

The OCR part is only true for video modes unsupported by the system
BIOS.  For modes that the BIOS knows about (13h and below), function 8
of Int 10h is more than adequate.