Re: designing a screen reader

["James R. Van Zandt" <jrv vanzandt mv com>]

Under Linux, the screen contents is available via the virtual console
devices like /dev/vcs1 and /dev/vcsa1 (one is without attributes, and
the other is with them).

		       - Jim Van Zandt


>From: saqib saqib-shaikh freeserve co uk
>Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 11:53:00 +0100
>
>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