Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!mks!wheels
From: wheels@mks.UUCP (Gerry Wheeler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Read Screen Character
Summary: probably cannot do it
Message-ID: <478@mks.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jun 88 21:20:31 GMT
References: <8806151250.AA29397@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ont.
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In article <8806151250.AA29397@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, U211510@HNYKUN11.BITNET (Wil Groenen) writes:
> I have a problem [...] reading a character from screen at current
> cursor position.

I do not have detailed knowledge about this (my manuals aren't here
at the moment), but I would theorise that this is not possible.
Remember, once the character is drawn on the screen it is just a
bunch of bits. This is quite unlike the usual video screens for
IBM-type computers. It would take quite a program to read the pattern
of bits and tell which character it was.
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