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- Below is a concatenation of several Usenet headers from Matt's postings.
- They contain useful information and provide sort of an "audit trail" for
- the current distribution.
-
- -Fred 21-Nov-87
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- Article 9324 of comp.sys.amiga:
- Path: mcdsun!noao!hao!husc6!bloom-beacon!oberon!cit-vax!ucla-cs!zen!ucbvax!CORY.BERKELEY.EDU!dillon
- From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
- Subject: SAMPLE DOS DEVICE DRIVER, source and binary
- Message-ID: <8710210733.AA18361@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
- Date: 21 Oct 87 07:33:06 GMT
- Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
- Lines: 1531
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- O.K. folks, here it is. Even with Andy's help I was unable to
- get Info() (as in disk info) to work with it... It might have something to
- do with my device node. Everything else works, however.
-
- By the way, this is definately a *guru* posting.... don't even bother
- if you don't know what a BSTR is. This is NOT a utility, but an example for
- those programmers interested in writing DOS device drivers.
-
- As usual, any and all Feedback will be appreciated. I plan to do
- another one in the future which exploits the packet types not implemented
- in this one (some just don't apply to a simple ram disk). I plan to update
- this one as soon as I can figure out (or somebody can describe to me) how
- to make the system recognize the thing in INFO and Info()... sigh.
-
- The binary is included in case some people have problems compiling
- and want to compare their conglomeration with one that works.
-
- -Matt
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- Article 9421 of comp.sys.amiga:
- Path: mcdsun!noao!hao!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!CORY.BERKELEY.EDU!dillon
- From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
- Subject: Revised Example Dos Device Driver
- Message-ID: <8710222325.AA20244@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
- Date: 22 Oct 87 23:25:09 GMT
- Sender: kupfer@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
- Lines: 1652
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- Thanks to Steve Beats and Andy Finkel, I've gotten ACTION_INFO
- working properly. Here's the update... plus the docs which somehow got
- left out of the original distribution.
-
- -Matt
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- Article 9448 of comp.sys.amiga:
- Path: mcdsun!noao!hao!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!CORY.BERKELEY.EDU!dillon
- From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
- Subject: Slight mistake in the docs for my sample device driver
- Message-ID: <8710230716.AA16316@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
- Date: 23 Oct 87 07:16:20 GMT
- Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
- Lines: 8
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- It would seem that DOS does not unload the segment of the driver
- after you flush it (by allocating too much memory). Therefore, to test
- multiple versions without rebooting (assuming you are writing your own
- device driver), simply have multiple Mountlist entries with different
- names.
-
- -Matt
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- Article 9982 of comp.sys.amiga:
- Path: mcdsun!mcdchg!clyde!cbosgd!ucbvax!CORY.BERKELEY.EDU!dillon
- From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
- Subject: EXAMPLE DOSDEVICE V1.10
- Message-ID: <8711030249.AA00725@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
- Date: 3 Nov 87 02:49:29 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
- Lines: 1951
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-
- I fixed *many* bugs, and implemented a bit more of my sample RAM
- disk (TEST: device): It now timestamps files and works with the workbench.
-
- I would like to thank Steve Beats and all the people at Commodore
- who helped me thrash out the problems!
-
- Those of you programmers who liked the original version are going
- to love this one.
-
- -Matt
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