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- From: rjo@panix.com (Robert Olivier)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
- Subject: Re: Writing Device Drivers
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.142829.912@panix.com>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 14:28:29 GMT
- References: <msf.716240474@skaro>
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- Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC
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- In <msf.716240474@skaro> msf@skaro.as.arizona.edu (Michael Fulbright) writes:
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- >I am working on a port of the SBBSD unix device driver for the Sound
- >Blaster. I have looked at several sample device drivers and I have
- >almost all the info I need. I have 2 remaining questions:
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- >1) How do you parse the command line from CONFIG.SYS that invoked
- > your device driver?
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- > Say CONFIG.SYS has DEVICE=D:\A.SYS A B C D
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- > How do I get the string 'A B C D'? Is it passed as part of the
- > initialization request packet?
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- The parameters are passed in the init request block beginning at offset
- 0x12. This is covered on page 15-5 in the IBM Physical Device Driver
- Reference.
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- rjo@panix.com
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- Robert J. Olivier
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