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- Driver Installer © Copyright 1989 Apple Computer, Inc. By Ricardo Batista
-
- Driver Installer is a quick and dirty application to install drivers in an
- INIT or cdev file during the development cycle of the drivers.
-
- When developing drivers sometimes we need to go into ResEdit a thousand times to
- copy DRVR and DATA resources to a file containing an INIT resource, I get really
- tired of going trough my disks to find these files everytime. This program automates
- copying resources and setting attributes a little bit.
-
- 1) When launched, Driver Installer will ask you to select a cdev or INIT file,
- which is the typical place where a driver is stored. Once you have selected
- the file ALL of the DRVR and DATA resources in that file are removed, since
- we are assuming you are installing a new version of your driver(s).
-
- 2) A dialog box will then ask you if you want to override the resource attributes
- of the new drivers so that they are set for system heap and locked, this is
- is a requirement for drivers that live for as long as the mac is on. If you
- select “Cancel” from the dialog then the resource attributes of each driver
- and its optional DATA resource will be respected.
-
- 3) Now the program will ask you to select a file where a driver is contained, if
- you select Cancel you go back to the Finder. Otherwise ALL the DRVR and
- DATA resources (if they exist) are copied into the cdev or INIT file selected in
- step 1. This step is repeated for as long as you keep selecting files containing
- drivers.