Appendix E. Console Graphics Lite

It’s nice to be able to enliven example programs with graphics, so we’ve included some graphics-based examples in this book. Standard C++ does not include graphics specifications, but it certainly doesn’t prohibit graphics, and Windows supports various kinds of graphics.

Microsoft Visual C++ and Borland C++ use different library functions for graphics, and neither does everything we want it to. To avoid having two versions of each graphics example, and to gain extra capability, we use our own set of graphics functions, ...

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