I would really like to see this function:

$string = GetScr($x,$y,$numchars)

But, one of the problems is that along with the character, one would want the COLOR information as well ... that might be trickier to do ? But if GetScr return an array of longs, and say the lower word/byte was the char, and the upper word/byte was the color - that would be sweet. One could save and restore the screen and bui;ld some really slick windows libraries.

-Shawn