Re: ? Device Interface w/o DDK ?

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From: Tom Hill
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 00:34

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In article <1993Jan11.144522.7687@bnr.ca> tracyb@bnr.ca (Tracy Blomquist) writes:
>I have a PC card that requires the use of h/w int 2-5 (one of)
>and reading/writing to several ports.  I want to port the DOS
>app that uses it to Windows.  I don't have the DDK. 
>
>I read an article in MSJ a while back about "embedded device
>drivers" in windows apps.  But these drivers can only access
>devices generating ints >= 30h. I'm thinking about the following
>approach to get it to work...
<stuff deleted>


You might want to take a look at the code in the ...\samples\handler
directory of the SDK. It is a simple DLL that fields keyboard interrupts.
It seems a lot simpler than trying to do a combined DOS/Windows driver.

Tom Hill

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