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From: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Determine current video adapter/monitor
Message-ID: <1021@chyde.uwasa.fi>
Date: 3 Nov 89 22:34:34 GMT
References: <5060063@hpccc.HP.COM>
Reply-To: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK)
Organization: U of Vaasa, Finland
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In article <5060063@hpccc.HP.COM> tomj@hpccc.HP.COM (Tom Johnson) writes:
>What is the best way to determine in a program what video adapter/monitor
>is currently installed??  I'm specifically concerned with MONO/CGA/EGA/VGA
>adapters.

I do not know what the best way is.  Nevertheless, you could try
grapinfo.exe in the /pc/ts/tsutil27.arc, available by anonymous ftp
from our site.  It detects the graphics hardware on a PC.  Also,
there was a source recently in DDJ or PC-Magazine for this.  That
used interrupts (and did not recognize all the standard
alternatives), mine uses the Turbo Pascal graphics abilities. 

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Prof. Timo Salmi                                (Site 128.214.12.3)
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