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

posted by tkchia , 03.10.2023, 21:32

Hello mbbrutman,

> The code you linked looks like it's a UPX device driver for whatever
> OpenDOS is. (I'm familiar with UPX as a command line program, not as a
> device driver.)

UPX can apparently compress device drivers for MS-DOS; and the code is (part of?) the decompressor stub for device drivers.

(For the decompressor to work, the compressed device driver must be able to be processed by the OS as a device driver in its own right, so the unpacker stub must take that into account...)

Thank you!

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Complete thread:

• Device drivers: Changing the attribute word at install time? - mbbrutman, 02.10.2023, 23:47 (Developers)
  • 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