Being the self-educated hack-git that I am, I don't know what either of those suggestions actually are.
BUT, being the self-educated hack-git that I am I figured out you can:
Defeat the 24hr Wikipedia blackout by hitting Ctrl-A followed by Ctrl-C
quickly before the blackout screen appears, then you can paste the entire page to Windows Notepad!

I tried to find out what tri state means... Do I need to use transistors to isolate all of the LCD control pins?
How do you reset the FLAGS var? it is an internal asm variable yes?
Will that ruin my program during execution if my own flags have critical states?

@ spcw1234, I'm not using a bootloader, just plain vanilla PBP hex loaded straight to the pic.