Hi Patrick,
You asked:
PW>        I am a begginer at C programming as you can probably tell with
PW>this question.
Don't worry, we all were once.
PW>My problem is though, that I got my copy of C off a freeware disk and so
PW>it didn't come with many of those nice include files.
It  should come with all the required ones.
PW>Does anyone know where I could get include files.  I've tried on a BBS
PW>but the include files wheren't the ones in my C book.  I especially need
PW>ones like CONIO.H and GRAPHICS.H as I hope to include nice graphics in
PW>my programs.
If you don't have them supplied, then there is, in general, no source
for them as the libraries for the compiler you have probably don't have
the functions prototyped in them. As you haven't told us: a) which
compiler, b) where exactly you got it (CD name), there is not really
anything we can help with.
Quoting CONIO.H and GRAPHICS.H as missing files suggests that the C book
you are using targets the Borland compiler as these files are for
Borland language extensions. The files themselves are of little use
withou the library support for the functions they prototype.
PW>It would be most useful to know where to get these files but I
PW>understand that C is not one of those programming languages that are
PW>standardised.
C _is_ standardised at an international level. Language extensions are
not standardised and as there is no graphics standard that can be
applied across potential target platforms (the target systems are not
even required to have a display) the standard does not provide one. It
does provide for basic character input and output, but that is all. The
same lack of graphics limitations also apply to all non platform
specific languages I've used.
George
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