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DVdevload (c) Copyright 1991 Ralf Brown
v1.00 8/11/91
What is it?
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DVdevload and its support program DVeop allow you to load device drivers
in a DESQview window. Unlike Quarterdeck's DEVICE.COM, DVdevload actually
links the driver into the device driver chain, thus permitting the use
of drivers which do not hook any interrupts. With DEVICE.COM, if the
driver does not hook any interrupts, it is completely inactive because
DEVICE.COM does not hook it into the driver chain.
DISCLAIMER
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This product is distributed AS IS, with no warranties, express or implied.
The author disclaims all liability for any damages (incidental or
consequential) caused by the use or misuse of this product. Sole
responsibility for determining its fitness for use rests with the user.
INSTALLATION
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DVdevload is quite simple to use. Before starting DESQview, the DVeop
driver must have been installed, so you will need to add a line to either
AUTOEXEC.BAT or your DESQview startup batch file to run DVeop without
arguments, i.e.
DVEOP
or
DVEOP-S
DVeop will automatically load itself into high memory using either XMS or
DOS 5 upper memory blocks; LOADHIGH or its equivalent is completely
superfluous and would in fact *increase* DVeop's memory requirements.
DVEOP.COM and DVEOP-S.COM are the same except that DVEOP-S.COM only supports
3 simultaneous windows using DVDEVLOD, while DVEOP.COM supports 16. This
results in an 80-byte savings in the resident portion (272 bytes versus
352 bytes when loaded high).
Once DVEOP has been run, you can now start DESQview. Within each window
that requires a particular driver, you need to run DVDEVLOD.COM. Thus,
you would have a line like
DVDEVLOD C:\DOS\ANSI.SYS
in that window's startup batch file. If the driver requires any parameters,
you simply place them after the driver's name, as in
DVDEVLOD C:\DOS\ANSI.SYS /L
You may run DVDEVLOD multiple times within a single window to load multiple
drivers.
REQUIREMENTS
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DVdevlod requires DOS 2.0 or higher and DESQview 2.26 or higher. Once
installed, it uses 192 bytes in addition to the memory used by the driver
itself.
LIMITATIONS
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This version of DVdevload is not able to load block devices inside a DESQview
window. If the driver provides one or more drive letters, it must be loaded
in CONFIG.SYS. While technically possible, loading block devices is far more
complex than character devices, because several DOS-internal data structures
must be modified on each task switch. A future version will remove this
limitation.
Further, DVdevload can not be used in windows for which the protection level
(second "Change a Program" screen) has been set to either 2 or 3, as DESQview
will complain about a protection violation each time DVdevload tries to
patch the device chain. There are no problems with protection levels 0 or 1.
I do not believe that a workaround for this problem exists, because DVdevload
must inherently mess with DOS's internals, which is considered outside the
program's address space at higher protection levels.
AVAILABILITY
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The newest version is available in the following places:
On the Internet, for anonymous FTP from CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.222.173] in
directory /afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/ralf/pub/DESQview. You must change
directory there with a single command before attempting to retrieve
any files, due to the way the security mechanism works. If your site
is connected to AFS, you can simply change directory to the above
directory and perform a normal Unix/VMS/whatever file copy.
On FIDOnet, for download and File Request from SoundingBoard, 1:129/26,
1-412-621-4604, 2400/9600 HST. The file is kept in file area 8.
AUTHOR
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Ralf Brown
School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
Internet: ralf+@cs.cmu.edu
CIS: >INTERNET:ralf+@cs.cmu.edu
FIDO: Ralf Brown 1:129/26.1