From: demandrd AT compusmart DOT ab DOT ca (Demandred)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Allegro Bitmap Functions
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 21:44:34 GMT
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joyce AT webgate DOT net (Joyce Osagie) wrote:

>Does anyone know if allegro come with a function to extract bitmaps
>out of a pcx file.  I have looked through the text file that comes
>with allegro but I can't figure out which function I would have to
>use.  Any help would be greatly appreciatied.

What I usually do (makes things much easier, too) is to use Grabber to
create a .dat file.  Grabber can "grab" bitmaps right out of PCXs.