Re: capturing oopses

[Bodo Eggert]

Ville Herva <vherva@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Speaking of which, does anybody know a feasible (as in "not too much harder
> than manually typing it in manually") way to OCR characters from vga text
> mode screen captures - or even digican shots?
> 
> The vga text mode captures are from a remote administration interface (such
> as HP RILOE or vmware gsx console) so they are pixel perfect and OCR should
> be doable.

If it's a 640 pixel width image and you've got the right font loaded, the
VGA function 0x08 will get you the character at the current cursor position.
It's also used by PRTSCR, so pressing it in a DOS viewer may dump the text
to LPT1. If you redirected it to a serial console, you might also catch it.
(I never tried).
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verbreiteten Lügen zu sabotieren.
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