From: cs19 AT cityscape DOT co DOT uk (BDC Client Team)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Allegro Bitmap Functions
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 13:53:09 GMT
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In article <5b6eqa$r45 AT nr1 DOT toronto DOT istar DOT net>, joyce AT webgate DOT net (Joyce Osagie) says:
>
>Does anyone know if allegro come with a function to extract bitmaps
>out of a pcx file.  I have looked through the text file that comes
>with allegro but I can't figure out which function I would have to
>use.  Any help would be greatly appreciatied.
>
>Joyce.
>

you're in luck, allegro comes with exactly this utility.  Look in the allegro/tools directory
and you will find a program called grabber - this is what you are looking for.

It does a whole lot more besides grabbing pcx files, it will grab midi, wav
,fli and a few others besides :-)