Hi John! :-)

 JHG> I am always hearing new C programmers who only want to learn STD C 
 JHG> programming, because they want their code to be PORTABLE, yet they also 
 JHG> want their program to have fancy GRAPHICS, MOUSE support, etc.... Fine... 
 JHG> Which do you want?
There are cross-platform GUI (gtk+, Qt, wxWindows) and graphics (SDL, which
is sort of a portable DirectX) libraries for C. You can write stuff that
runs on Windows, Linux, and Macs without source code changes.

Ciao
Pascal

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