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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Reading characters in graphics mode
Message-ID: <1991Jun20.060442.6419@uwasa.fi>
Date: 20 Jun 91 06:04:42 GMT
Article-I.D.: uwasa.1991Jun20.060442.6419
References: <1991Jun14.150309.5126@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
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In article <1991Jun14.150309.5126@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> stone@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Glenn Stone) writes:
>There must an easy way to do this but I seem to have a mental block.  
>I'm writing a graphics mode equivalent of READLN(StringVariable) in
:

This is only a partial help since the source code is not available,
but it sometimes helps to take a look at a program that has had the
same problem solved.  I have a turbdemo.exe in /pc/ts/tsdemo14.arc
which demonstrates various texthandling tricks in Turbo Pascal
graphics mode. 

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