Re: Unload Device Driver

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From: Fridrik Skulason
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1992 20:14

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amh15@cus.cam.ac.uk (Alan Hart) writes:

>In article <720643197snz@aries.demon.co.uk> pm2@aries.demon.co.uk, pm2@doc.ic.ac.uk writes:
>>Hi,
>>
>>Is there any shareware or PD out there which will allow me to unload device
>>driver (and restore the memory status to whatever it was before the driver was
>>loaded) in a config.sys file?

>I have seen a pair of utilities called MARK and RELEASE. 

Well, mark and release only work for TSRs, not device drivers that are loaded
as .SYS files.  Well, actually a device driver does not have to be loaded as
a .SYS file......it is even possible to implement them so that the same
program can either be loaded with DEVICE= or run as a normal executable file,

-frisk

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From: frisk@complex.is (Fridrik Skulason)
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Subject: Re: Unload Device Driver
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Date: 2 Nov 92 20:14:08 GMT
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