From:	"Damian Yerrick" <web DOT poison AT pineight DOT 8m DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: wrapper for <graph.h> calls
Date:	Wed, 6 Oct 1999 20:17:55 -0500
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Sascha Bendinger <digana AT t-online DOT de> wrote in message
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> Hi!
>
> Our PRGs use the old <graph.h> calls for graphics under dos.
> But we want to move from Watcom

Good choice.

> and DOS to DJGPP and [DOS | Windoze | Linux].

If you want to write graphics calls that work under DOS (DJGPP
and Watcom), Sindows (MSVC, MinGW32, and RSXNTDJ),
Linux (gcc) and BeOS, write programs that use Allegro.

> So for easy porting, is there a wrapper for those old calls to
> a modern lib like allegro or grx?

I believe you could easily write such a wrapper that converts
graph.h calls to Allegro calls.

> In short im looking for something like bcc2grx, but for watcom :-)

Then make it! :-)
That's the spirit of free software.


Damian Yerrick
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