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Grab Screen from active DOS/console App. ?

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From: lars
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 00:00
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Hi,

I want to grab the textcontent of an active DOS box.

- what i DONT want is a solution that "pipes" data another way - like:

dir > data.dat

since this wont work with an active application - ex EDIT.EXE or another
program running until user exits the program.

What i would like is to "poll" the DOS box from my application - and get the
ex. 80*25 characters - and ex. display this in another way in my GUI
application.

Can anyone tell me if this is possible ? - im using CreateProcess to launch
the external application, the dos application will always be "windowized" -
not a fullscreen box.

I have looked at AllocConsole....but well...i dont really get the idea of
this.

Hope this is clear and someone can help me, thanks.

Regards,
Lars
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Subject: Grab Screen from active DOS/console App. ?
Date: 1999/10/11
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