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From: gl8f@astsun9.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
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Subject: Re: Closing AES boxes interfering with VDI drawing
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Date: 18 Dec 90 01:42:28 GMT
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In article <111628@convex.convex.com> rosenkra@convex.com (William Rosencranz) writes:

>and it is the only way i know of to use dialogs larger than 25% of the
>screen. unless u can suggest a better approach? i'd gladly change my
>evil ways :-).

You can certainly save everything on the screen without knowing that
it's 32k bytes long. Try finding out how big it is and then blit it
into a buffer and back.