Date: Fri, 23 Dec 94 08:25:24 -0500
From: dj AT stealth DOT ctron DOT com (DJ Delorie)
To: wudavid AT ecf DOT toronto DOT edu
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: Very Basic Q


>   What does a driver do for you? Does it improve productivity?  Does it make your
> code more portable?

It lets you do bank switching on non-vesa cards, or with faster
methods than vesa calls.

>  Isn't there too much over head of using some 
> external program?  Is it linked into you program or something?

It's pulled in at runtime as a subroutine.

>   Why do DJGPP graphics drivers end in "grn"?  isn't "drv" more intuitive?

"drv" just means driver.  Driver for what?  "grd" meant graphics
driver, "grn" means GRaphics driver New.