Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 07:23:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Tim Gerchmez <fewtch@serv.net> To: mlduke@concentric.net Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: A Driver, A Revelation Message-ID: <XFMail.980629072355.fewtch@serv.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980628160034.509A-100000@mlduke.concentric.net>
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On 28-Jun-98 mlduke@concentric.net wrote: > It just dawned yesterday that I do not really know what a driver _is_. > A little bit of data on a disk. In a nutshell, drivers are interfaces between an operating system and the hardware that OS controls. They are *always* specific to a particular OS or operating environment, and a Win95 driver won't work with Win NT, DOS, Unix or anything else but Win95. There are no exceptions to this rule whatsoever, unless the driver is specifically designed to work in multiple environments (very few are). > But FBSD can see it. Does anyone know: Is there a way to copy the driver > to /dos and make it work there? Which means to say, any file can be > copied to /dos, but I don't even know what file it would be in the absence > of the absolute path name. It's highly doubtful, if not impossible, that anything like that would work. ---------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: Tim Gerchmez <fewtch@serv.net> Date: 29-Jun-98 Time: 07:11:37 This message was sent by XFMail under Fvwm2 and FREEBSD. My personal website is at http://www.serv.net/~fewtch/index.html Take a look if you have the time - something for everyone there. ---------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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