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Article #32926Re: Read Screen Character
From: Michael J. Farren
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 1988 12:17
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 1988 12:17
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In article <478@mks.UUCP> wheels@mks.UUCP (Gerry Wheeler) writes:
>> I have a problem [...] reading a character from screen at current
>> cursor position.
>
>I would theorise that this is not possible.
If it's that hard, how is it that IBM PC's can do it? (And I do mean in
graphics mode, where the characters are, just as they are on the ST,
just bit patterns in memory.)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!think!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!unisoft!gethen!farren From: farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Read Screen Character Message-ID: <950@gethen.UUCP> Date: 20 Jun 88 12:17:36 GMT References: <8806151250.AA29397@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <478@mks.UUCP> Reply-To: farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren) Organization: There's Unix there in Oakland Lines: 13