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- From: nelson@desktop.nsc.com (Taed Nelson)
- Subject: EXE that can mimick a Device Driver
- Message-ID: <1993Jan13.002810.1298@berlioz.nsc.com>
- Sender: news@berlioz.nsc.com (UseNet News account)
- Organization: Applications Technology, National Semiconductor (Santa Clara, CA)
- Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 00:28:10 GMT
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- I have a need to put one of my command line programs (.EXE) inside the
- CONFIG.SYS file for some users (it must run prior to a network device
- driver). As I discovered previously, one way of doing this is through the
- INSTALL= statement -- HOWEVER, it runs _all_ DEVICE= statements before the
- INSTALL= -- regardless of their placement within the file.
-
- I do not want to have two versions of my program, one as an EXE for command
- line, and another SYS for the device driver mode.
-
- I noticed that some EXE programs, such as SOFT-ICE (the debugger) and EMM386
- (the expanded memory manager) are EXE programs, but they can be installed
- via the DEVICE= statement. How is this done?
-
- Does anyone know how to do this or know of any source code that does it?
-
- I will post a summary of any responses since I imagine that others would be
- interested in this bit of trickery. Thanks!
-