Detecting video adapters

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From: Barry Ard
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 1990 19:28

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I am looking for some information on how to detect the existence of
various video adapters (MDA, CGA, EGA, VGA) for the PC.
Using the TC++ 1.0 detectgraph() function has successfully detected
graphic adapters in a bunch of PCs I have access
to but linking with graphics.lib adds about 20K to the size of the
executable and I don't have any other need for the graphics library.
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From: userBARD@mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA (Barry Ard)
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Subject: Detecting video adapters
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