From: "Damian Yerrick" <web DOT poison AT pineight DOT 8m DOT com>
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Subject: Re: gettex() and puttext() problem.
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 22:55:29 -0500
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<hank_heng AT hotmail DOT com> wrote in message news:7tbjvd$vve$1 AT nnrp1 DOT deja DOT com...
> Hi,
>
>   I try to compile the fillowing code, there is no error when compile
> time, but when I try to run the compiled executable, it crash, and when
> I try to debug it with "symify", it point back to the end of file is
> causing error, this does not make any sense at all...
>
>   The following is my code, what is wrong with it ?
>
>
> #include <conio.h>
> #include <stdio.h>
>
> main()
> {
>   int test=3;
>   char destination;
>   void *des = &destination;

You only allocated one byte for destination. How do
you expect that much of the screen to fit in one byte?
Replace the two previous lines with

short des[4096];

This allocates 8 kilobytes, which should be safe in nearly all text modes.

>
>
>   /* capture screen character */
>   test = gettext(10, 10, 20, 20, des);
>
>   printf("gettext test = %d.\n", test);
>
>   printf("press any key to continue...\n");
>   getch();
>   clrscr();
>   getch();
>
>
>   /* putting back screen character */
>   test = puttext(10, 10, 20, 20, des);
>   printf("puttext test = %d.\n", test);
> }
>
>
>   Thankx for helping me out.

No problem.

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