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XLIB04 again... And another question!

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From: Chris Macksey
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 04:36
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Hm.... As yet no response on my query on where XLIB04 is... *sigh*.
I've heard rumours that it's on SIMTEL somewhere, but I've checked
the GRAPHICS, VGA, PGMUTL, C, TURBO-C, and ASMUTL directories for it to
no avail.  (Then again, I'm _technically_ not looking on SIMTEL, I'm
looking in oak.oakland.edu - but it's supposed to be a mirror, and one
with very little delay, or so I've heard).  The only thing I've received
is an e-mail asking me if I'd found out yet.  Please, please, please,
PLEASE tell me where XLIB is *sniff* *sob*..... Alright, Chris.... get ahold
of yourself.... Aah. Much better.

On another topic, is there any way to do page swapping in standard VGA
320x200x256 mode?  I have a 1MB video card, yet the BIOS seems to only support
one page in this mode.  Can anyone enlighten me as to why this silly
restriction is there?  I suppose I could put the image into a bitmap and use
the putimage() (BGI) function to put it on the screen, but that means I have
to re-invent the wheel instead of using the standard BGI commands.
(I'm using Turbo C v2.0 and the SVGA256.BGI driver).  Any info on how to
do (non-messy) page swapping (well, ok... it can even be a little messy)
in this mode would be muchly appreciated.

Thanks in advance...
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Chris Macksey                            "All kids love LOG(tm)!"
(ummackse@ccu.umanitoba.ca)                    - Ren n' Stimpy.
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From: ummackse@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Chris Macksey)
Subject: XLIB04 again... And another question!
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Summary: Where is XLIB? And how do you page swap in 320x200x256 mode?
Keywords: XLIB MODEX XLIB04 VGA PAGE SWAPPING
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Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 04:36:37 GMT
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