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From: erc@khijol.UUCP (Edwin R. Carp)
Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Saving a text screen
Keywords: MS QuickC
Message-ID: <1069@khijol.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jan 90 07:41:01 GMT
References: <Jan.17.20.10.42.1990.21893@topaz.rutgers.edu>
Reply-To: erc@khijol.UUCP (Edwin R. Carp)
Organization: Emotional Counseling Services of Austin
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In article <Jan.17.20.10.42.1990.21893@topaz.rutgers.edu> jjoshua@topaz.rutgers.edu (Jon Joshua) writes:
 
>I'm looking for a way to save a rectangular portion of a text screen

 [ ... ]

>_getimage()/_putimage() do not seem to work in text mode.  Is there

get/putimage only works for graphics screens.  The fastest way to do this is
to directly address video memory, scarf the text and attributes, and save it
away somewhere.
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