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From: glratt@uncle-bens.rice.edu (Glenn Forbes Larratt)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: How to make device drivers
Summary: DOS External Command EXE2BIN
Message-ID: <1991Feb15.064335.26772@rice.edu>
Date: 15 Feb 91 06:43:35 GMT
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In article <1991Feb15.021901.13855@Neon.Stanford.EDU> dalgic@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Ismail Dalgic) writes:
>This is probably a very trivial question, but I'm not an MSDOS
>programmer.  I just found a public domain device driver source in
>assembly language.  Could you tell me how to assemble this thing to
>create a device driver with a .sys extension?  I have an XT compatible
>with masm, if that matters.
>
Use MASM to assemble it to .EXE format, then use EXE2BIN (DOS external)
to convert it to a binary file, explicitly giving it the extension .SYS.

Hope this helps.

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	Glenn Larratt			glratt@uncle-bens.rice.edu
	Computing Resource Center	OCIS, Rice University, Houston, Texas