Re: designing a screen reader

[sfogarty <blinky earthlight co nz>]

the source code for linux is available from redhat / cheapbytes on the net
at www.cheapbytes.com, so you may be able to get something from that.

simon.At 11:53 AM 8/29/99 +0100, you wrote:
>For a project I am doing, I have decided to attempt to write a 
>console screen reader for linux/unix. However, while I know c++ I 
>do not know many of the low level linux calls, such as how to get 
>the contents of the screen. In msdos you could do this using 
>memcpy because you could read from the screen memory, but due 
>to security and suchlike I don't think an equivalent is possible 
>under unix/linux. If anyone has any help to offer, please contact me 
>privately at saqib saqib-shaikh freeserve co uk 
>thanks, saqib
>
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