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From: gavin@krypton.sgi.com (Gavin A. Bell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: writing frontbuffer to backbuffer
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Date: 14 Dec 89 17:24:55 GMT
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tjh@bu-pub.bu.edu writes:
>Is there a way to write directly from the frontbuffer to the backbuffer
>or the zbuffer?  That is without doing a rectread and then a rectwrite.
>-Tim  tjh@bu-pub.bu.edu

Sure, use the rectcopy command.  See the man page for more info, but
you should do something like:

readsource(SRC_FRONT);
backbuffer(TRUE);	/* Use zbuffer(TRUE) if you want to write to z */
rectcopy(args here);

--gavin