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Article #4698Re: How to make device drivers
From: Glenn Forbes Larratt
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 1991 06:43
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 1991 06:43
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In article <1991Feb15.021901.13855@Neon.Stanford.EDU> dalgic@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Ismail Dalgic) writes: >This is probably a very trivial question, but I'm not an MSDOS >programmer. I just found a public domain device driver source in >assembly language. Could you tell me how to assemble this thing to >create a device driver with a .sys extension? I have an XT compatible >with masm, if that matters. > Use MASM to assemble it to .EXE format, then use EXE2BIN (DOS external) to convert it to a binary file, explicitly giving it the extension .SYS. Hope this helps. -- Glenn Larratt glratt@uncle-bens.rice.edu Computing Resource Center OCIS, Rice University, Houston, Texas
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rice!uncle-bens.rice.edu!glratt From: glratt@uncle-bens.rice.edu (Glenn Forbes Larratt) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: How to make device drivers Summary: DOS External Command EXE2BIN Message-ID: <1991Feb15.064335.26772@rice.edu> Date: 15 Feb 91 06:43:35 GMT References: <1991Feb15.021901.13855@Neon.Stanford.EDU> Sender: glratt@uncle-bens.rice.edu Followup-To: glratt@uncle-bens.rice.edu Organization: Rice University Lines: 15