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Re: Hardware program

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Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 12:19
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Peter Charlwood a οΏ½crit dans le message
<96lpah$rot$1@uranium.btinternet.com>...
>Hi I wonder if anyone can help me out I am currently trying to write a
>
>program either in C or C++ (not yet decided) that will get hardware
>information from my PC. I would like to be able to get the information
>stored in the BIOS but if their is anywhere else that I might be able to
get
>this information then pls let me know. What I am really after is knowing if
>either C or C++ have any inbuilt functions that I can use to get this
>information and if their are not how do you recommend that I would be able
>to do it ???


How could C or C++ have such a build-in function? Those languages are both
designed to be platform independent. Of course, some specific extension
supplied by your implementation of the language (aka the compiler dedicated
to your platform) could help you for your platform.

Specific to PC information:
news:comp.sys.pc.programmer

>Thks for any help that you can give me.
>


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