Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!yale!bunker!shap
From: shap@bunker.UUCP (Joseph D. Shapiro)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: reading directly from screen
Message-ID: <10791@bunker.UUCP>
Date: 23 Mar 90 16:54:58 GMT
References: <3850@plains.UUCP>
Reply-To: shap@clunker.UUCP (Joseph D. Shapiro)
Organization: ISC-Bunker Ramo, an Olivetti Company, Shelton, Ct
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In article <3850@plains.UUCP> person@plains.UUCP (Brett G. Person) writes:
>How do I make Microsoft C read directly from video memory.  I need to 
>access the memory starting from b800.
>
>What does the c code that allows me to do this look like?

I do it all the time:

	typedef far char farchar;
	farchar *p;
	char c;

	p = (farchar *)(0xb8000000L);
	c = *p;
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