Re: Borland TurboC BGI Fonts...

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From: Carl Schelin
Date: Wed, 26 Dec 1990 17:04

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In article <7365@chorus.fr>, mir@opera.chorus.fr (Adam Mirowski) says:
>
>In article <3021@unccvax.uncc.edu>, cs00chs@unccvax.uncc.edu (charles spell) writes:
>%% 
>%% Where can I get more BGI fonts and/or a technical description of their file
>%% formats? I have ftp. Thanx.
>
>Well, you can take fonts from Quattro (about 4 new fonts). I have managed
>to display them with the BGIdemo program one day.
>On wustl.wuarchive.edu, directory /mirrors/msdos/borland there are files
>containing a complete BGI description, a font editor, a font compiler/de-
>compiler, etc. wsmr-simtel20.army.mil contains those files too, in the
>pd1:<msdos.borland> directory.
>-- 
>Adam Mirowski,  mir@chorus.fr (FRANCE),  tel. +33 (1) 30-64-82-00 or 74
>Chorus systemes, 6, av.Gustave Eiffel, 78182 Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines CEDEX

If it's the same one I saw, (version 1.x?) then you won't be able to use it with
the TC++ compiler. (As far as linking it in). Basically the BGIOBJ.Exe program 
will not recognize any of the .CHR or .BGI files.

Carl Schelin
tcs@mailer.jhuapl.edu

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