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Device drivers: Changing the attribute word at install time? (Developers)

posted by mbbrutman , Washington, USA, 03.10.2023, 20:21

I'm still looking for examples of device drivers that do this, but I found one sentence in the second edition of "Undocumented DOS" (Schulman) that confirms this is possible.

The sentence says the driver install routine is called first, and then the attributes are evaluated. Which makes sense as there is no need to worry about driver chains or attributes if the install routine in the driver errors out.

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Complete thread:

• Device drivers: Changing the attribute word at install time? - mbbrutman, 02.10.2023, 23:47
  • Device drivers: Changing the attribute word at install time? - glennmcc, 03.10.2023, 03:43
  • Device drivers: Changing the attribute word at install time? - mbbrutman, 03.10.2023, 20:21
    • Device drivers: Changing the attribute word at install time? - ecm, 03.10.2023, 20:56
      • Device drivers: Changing the attribute word at install time? - mbbrutman, 03.10.2023, 21:26
        • Device drivers: Changing the attribute word at install time? - tkchia, 03.10.2023, 21:32
          • Device drivers: Changing the attribute word at install time? - mbbrutman, 03.10.2023, 22:48
          • Device drivers: Changing the attribute word at install time? - tom, 04.10.2023, 23:43
  • Device drivers: Changing the attribute word at install time? - tkchia, 03.10.2023, 21:28
    • Device drivers: Changing the attribute word at install time? - mbbrutman, 03.10.2023, 22:51
      • Device drivers: Changing the attribute word at install time? - bretjohn, 06.10.2023, 21:35
        • Device drivers: Changing the attribute word at install time? - mbbrutman, 07.10.2023, 20:42
          • Device drivers: Changing the attribute word at install time? - bretjohn, 09.10.2023, 19:17
            • Device drivers: Changing the attribute word at install time? - mbbrutman, 02.11.2023, 19:39
  • Device drivers: Changing the attribute word at install time? - Rugxulo, 23.11.2023, 22:15