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From: c164-2bf@portia.uucp (Erik Talvola)
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Subject: Re: Using Hercules graphics with MS-C 5.1
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Date: 30 Mar 89 05:50:46 GMT
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In article <22232@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> econman1@garnet.berkeley.edu (Elbert Chen) writes:
>Does anyone have experience using the Microsoft C graphics library with the
>Hercules Graphics Adaptor.  The functions work -- after loading msherc.com --
>but there is no documentation in the 5.1 manual.  Is it possible to compile
>code which does not need this msherc.com ? Any suggestion is appreciated.

There was a graphics library called HGRAPH.LIB which was posted to
comp.binaries.ibm.pc recently.  It is a complete replacement graphics
library to allow programming the Hercules Graphics Card without using 
the MSHERC program.  I have played around with it and have found it very
easy to use.  A small program that was written in Turbo-C was easily 
converted over to Microsoft C using the HGRAPH library and I was impressed.
The size of the executable file was about 14K compared with 42K for Turbo-C
(This is Turbo-C v1.5), and the execution speed was basically identical.
You may want to try to get a copy of this package.  

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