mouse@vaxb.acs.unt.edu (Dhanapong Saengrussamee-University of North Texas) (07/22/90)
A couple days ago, somebody request an info about the availability of Font
editor for Borland's BGI Driver. Well, your mail bounced back and I delete the
return mail from the mailer by habit (thought it was an acknowledge from the
mailer). My co-worker who happened to read the article with me said she
remembered that it has something to do with cat. (She's nut about cat.) So
here's is your answer.
Last summer, June-July '89, Borland came out with a BGI Tools Kit. It contains
source code and sample of how to develop your own BGI Driver. Samples also
included: herc.BGI and vga256.BGI. Also in the Tools Kit, a Font Editor (FE,
what else?) is included which allows you to develop your own font for use with
the BGI Driver. FE required you to have a 128K EGA or higher (at lease the
version that I have -- anybody know if their's any upgrade to this?). Here's
the list of the whole Tools Kit:
bgikit.txt 9477
bgidrv.arc 101248
bgifnt.arc 76928
fonts.arc 87808
herc.arc 55552
vga256.arc 27136
They can be found on any Borland's "files area". The readme refers to
Compu$erve and GENie but I downloaded mine from BIX. At least as of today,
7-21-90, they are still on BIX (flat-fee is always nice to my wallet than
connect-fee 8^) ).
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The BGI Tools can be picked up from any SIMTEL mirror site. mc"B!"l
joefritz@pawl.rpi.edu (Jochen M. Fritz) (07/23/90)
In article <30179.26a8b3c0@vaxb.acs.unt.edu> mouse@vaxb.acs.unt.edu (Dhanapong Saengrussamee-University of North Texas) writes: >A couple days ago, somebody request an info about the availability of Font >editor for Borland's BGI Driver. Well, your mail bounced back and I delete the >return mail from the mailer by habit (thought it was an acknowledge from the >mailer). My co-worker who happened to read the article with me said she >remembered that it has something to do with cat. (She's nut about cat.) So >here's is your answer. > >Last summer, June-July '89, Borland came out with a BGI Tools Kit. It contains >source code and sample of how to develop your own BGI Driver. Samples also >included: herc.BGI and vga256.BGI. Also in the Tools Kit, a Font Editor (FE, >what else?) is included which allows you to develop your own font for use with >the BGI Driver. FE required you to have a 128K EGA or higher (at lease the >version that I have -- anybody know if their's any upgrade to this?). Here's >the list of the whole Tools Kit: > bgikit.txt 9477 > bgidrv.arc 101248 > bgifnt.arc 76928 > fonts.arc 87808 > herc.arc 55552 > vga256.arc 27136 > >They can be found on any Borland's "files area". The readme refers to >Compu$erve and GENie but I downloaded mine from BIX. At least as of today, >7-21-90, they are still on BIX (flat-fee is always nice to my wallet than >connect-fee 8^) ). > They are also available on FTP from SIMTEL20 (pd1:<msdos.borland>, wuarchive (same place), grape, and other sites. Note that on ftp the kit is broken into two files (one for fonts, the other for drivers) Both have the same documentation. They are also available from Borland via USnail by writing a letter to tech support. By sure to include name , language and serial number, a SASE, and a formatted disk. Maybe someone could post on c.b.i.p (are you listening ,Bill) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Jochen Fritz | For though we live in the world, we do not | | joefritz@pawl.rpi.edu | wage war as the world does.-- 2 Cor. 10:3 | | usergk2s@rpitsmts.bitnet| You have heard it said, Love your neighbor | | Noah [the peace monger] | and hate your enemy. But I tell you: Love | | | your enemies. Matt. 5:43-44 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------