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On Fri, 9 Jun 2000 01:08:45 +0100, Andrew R. Gillett
<arganoid AT fatal-design DOT com> ate too many hallucinogenic mushrooms and
wrote:

>The things you refer to are not in Allegro 3.12. They are in the latest 
>Allegro WIP (Work In Progress) versions.

IMO, documentation on making portable programs with Allegro should not
assume people are using unstable betas, but rather merely assume they
are using the latest stable release.
Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from
an Allegro-using C++ program compiled with gcc.