dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu (Duncan Murdoch) (10/23/90)
In article <1990Oct22.152744.20895@maytag.waterloo.edu> I wrote: > >Does anyone know of reasonably robust code to load device drivers from >the command line? The idea would be to copy the device driver file into >memory, hook it into the list of drivers, and then terminate and stay resident, >leaving only the driver in memory. ... >The reason I'm looking for such a thing is to be able to load different sets >of device drivers into different Desqview windows. (No, neither of the ones >above, but the ones I have in mind haven't been written yet.) Thanks to those who responded. It turns out that Desqview (version 2.26, at least) comes with such a thing: DEVICE.COM will load a character device driver from the command line. It's just barely mentioned in the documentation as far as I can see, but works just the way you'd expect, even outside DV. Only negative I can see so far is that tiny 300 byte device drivers take up 1300 bytes when loaded this way. Hardly worth losing sleep over! Duncan Murdoch