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From: harish@guille.ECE.ORST.EDU (Harish Pillay)
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Subject: Re: Looking for device driver references
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Date: 16 Mar 90 07:20:10 GMT
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In article <65.25ffa3be@vixvax.mgi.com> lodwick@vixvax.mgi.com (Phil Lodwick) writes:
>I am currently attempting to write an OS/2 character device driver.
>Not knowing much about the subject, I am getting most of my
>information from "Advanced OS/2 Programming" by Ray Duncan.  I was
>wondering if anyone knew of other references that might be useful.
>I am particularly interested in seeing sample source code.
>
>Thank you,
>Phil Lodwick
>
>Management Graphics, Inc.      E-mail:  Lodwick@mgi.com	
>1401 E. 79th Street            Voice:   (612) 851-6145
>Minneapolis, MN  55425         Fax:     (612) 854-6913


The following may be of interest to you and perhaps to readers of this
newsgroup.

    Writing OS/2 Device Drivers
    Westwater, Raymond    ISBN 0-201-52234-9
    1989 Addison-Wesley $24.95  516 pages softcover

    Topics covered (from the back page):
      - Device Driver Structure
      - Device Driver Flow of Execution
      - Driver Development Strategies
      - I/O Packets
      - Device Helper Services
      - Sample programs for PIPE driver, RAMDISK driver, TIMER driver

I found this book useful for writing non-network device drivers. The author 
can be reached via e-mail on MCI:FUTUREWARE (though I did not receive any 
reply to my query :-()

    The code in the book may be ordered from: 
    
	  FutureWare, Inc. 
	  78 Temple Ave, Suite 15,
	  Hackensack, NJ 07601-6026

          Telephone: 201-343-2033
	  Fax: 201-343-3921

    The assembly language sample programs cost $19.95.  The C Language 
Interface for Device Drivers and OS/2 Debugger cost $49.95.

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Harish Pillay                                       harish@ece.orst.edu
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Oregon State University