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Article #5554Re: Device driver from device name?
From: Andy Finkel
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 1990 16:46
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 1990 16:46
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In article <2055@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes:
>> Also you must handle Startup values that
>>are NOT pointers - for example, SER:, PAR:, PRT: take small integers there.
>
>Hmm... never noticed that, but then I wasn't looking. I'm a little puzzled as
>to what the 'small integers' do.
SER:, PAR: and PRT: are the same handler; the startup value is used
to indicate how you called it.
(See my port-handler source from the 1988 DevCon disks for more details)
andy
>-larry
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!rutgers!cbmvax!andy From: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Device driver from device name? Message-ID: <14764@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 1 Oct 90 16:46:17 GMT References: <2055@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 22