Bsave

 BBS: Inland Empire Archive
Date: 03-10-92 (03:10)             Number: 140
From: MARK BUTLER                  Refer#: 120
  To: TIM LAWING                    Recvd: NO  
Subj: Bsave                          Conf: (11) Quik_Bas

 On 03-08-92 Tim Lawing wrote to All...

 TL> I have a screen that I want to save.  I have tried to
 TL> understand this from a couple different manuals, still not
 TL> clear.  The screen is Screen 0.  Someone please explain to
 TL> me the process of reading the screen and placing it into a
 TL> file.  Please explain Def Seg to thanks.

 If you want to save the entire screen put this line into your program
 right after whatever it is you are doing to get the screen up that you
 want to save...

 DEF SEG &HB800             '*** use &HB000  for monchrome monitors
 BSAVE "screen.bsv",0,4000
 DEF SEG            ^   ^
                    |   |
                    |   +----------- screen size for 80x25 text mode
                    offset 0         ( screen 0 )
                                     For screen 1 or 2 better use 16384


 When you want to redisplay the screen the process is similar...

 DEF SEG &HB800  '*** use &HB000  for monchrome monitors
 BLOAD "screen.bsv",0
 DEF SEG

 "def seg" means "define segment". In this case we defined it to the
 video segment for a color monitor. The video segment for monochrome is
 different, it's &hb000

 After either of these routines return the segment to what is what before
 with a simple "def seg" or you might have problems later on in the
 program.

 -------------> MHB :-)



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