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From: farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Read Screen Character
Message-ID: <950@gethen.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jun 88 12:17:36 GMT
References: <8806151250.AA29397@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <478@mks.UUCP>
Reply-To: farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren)
Organization: There's Unix there in Oakland
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In article <478@mks.UUCP> wheels@mks.UUCP (Gerry Wheeler) writes:
>> I have a problem [...] reading a character from screen at current
>> cursor position.
>
>I would theorise that this is not possible.

If it's that hard, how is it that IBM PC's can do it?  (And I do mean in
graphics mode, where the characters are, just as they are on the ST,
just bit patterns in memory.)

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