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From: kaleb@mars.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2
Subject: Hercules driver/dll for PM
Keywords: hercules, PM
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Date: 12 Dec 89 17:21:34 GMT
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Reply-To: kaleb@mars.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA.
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This is a repost (more or less) of my query about the existance of a hercules
mono driver or dll.  Hercules says one is coming.  So is Christmas.  Microsoft
can't be bothered.  For Windows, they could be bothered, but their top end
product, they could not care more (or less.)

Is there (in the public/shareware domain) any software (driver/dll/etc) that
supports the Hercules mono display?  Is there any demand for such an item, or
am I the only person left in the world with a mono display.  If so, I must work
for the wrong company, because everyone else can afford ega or vga, and I
can't.

Can someone clarify for me (excuse my ignorance) whether it is indeed a .sys,
a .dll, or something else entirely that drives the display.

Is there anyone who knows what needs to go into this piece of software.  I know
a little about the Hercules card, if the required routines are simple enough,
I could (maybe) write one myself.

I have had IBM version 1.1 for three or four months now, and am at a standstill
over this issue.  I need to bootstrap this process somehow -- I need mono
support to use PM, and I need PM to use the system to do the mono....

Note:  the folks at Microsoft suggested using a 1.0 shell instead of 1.1's
pmshell, but the only 1.0 shell I could find was from Compaq, and when I tried
that, my system hung after printing a message (I forget the specifics) about
wrong version or some such.

Thanks.  email or post at your discretion.


Chewey, get us outta here!
                 
kaleb@mars.jpl.nasa.gov             (818)354-8771
Kaleb Keithley