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    06-Jul-88 13:44:24
Fm: Don Curtis/SYSOP 76703,4321
To: Black Belt Systems 76004,1771

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Ben, I agree….the GraphicDump program supplies you with the capability to do a dump of the screen right now. However, there major drawback to that is the speed. The way it works is that it only reads the screen, when it's ready to print that portion of it. So if you issued the command, and then change the screen while it's printing…you get different stuff on the top of the screen printout than you get on the bottom of the screen printout. The easiest way around this is to make a copy of the current screen in another area of memory and then use that copy to do the graphic dump. It's still slow…but at least allows you to do other things once you've issued the command. Don