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From: [e-mail] (Usman Muzaffar)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.pascal.borland,comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: HELP: Borland Graphics Interface
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1996 21:34:06 -0600
Organization: Northwestern University
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Hi -

Sorry for the crosspost; not sure who could answer this.

Simple question: I have Borland Turbo C++ 3.1 (1992, old, I know).
The Borland Graphics Interface BGI has some drivers (*.BGI) and
some fonts (*.CHR). A utility called BGIOBJ.EXE is supposed to let
you change both fonts and drivers into *.OBJ files so they can be
linked to your executable and need not be present as separate files
on disk at runtime.

Problem is simple: Although BGI comes with 10 different fonts,
for some reason only 4 of them (LITT.CHR, SANS.CHR, can't remember
other two) can be converted by BGIOBJ.EXE. In fact, the documentation
for BGIOBJ.EXE mentions that these four can be converted, and says
nothing of the other ones.

But it doesn't say why, or if there's a way to convert the others ones.
Is there? Can anyone confirm that BGIOBJ does NOT convert, say, GOTHIC.CHR
to GOTHIC.OBJ ? Do I have defective fonts, or converter, or am I just
out of luck?

On a related question, are other *.CHR fonts available? If so, where?

thanks for any answers,
email if possible

usman
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