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From: mark@unisec.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Need help with printer driver
Message-ID: <459@unisec.USI.COM>
Date: Fri, 10-Apr-87 09:02:19 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 10 09:02:19 1987
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Summary: Thanks for the tip!

In article <8704090805.AA09163@cory.Berkeley.EDU>, dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
> 
> 	Just your luck!  I'm trying to write printer driver too (for my...
> 
> 	I guess that means your using Aztec?  I am using Aztec. 
> For Aztec (3.4 at least):
> 
> 	-Compile with +BCD  (large model EVERYTHING), including your assembly
                    ^^
Thanks!  I forgot all about the A4 problem!  I had rediscovered +B
yesterday, but that obviously was not enough to keep the Guru away.  I'm
also compiling with the +L option.  This code is (was) a 99.9% carbon
copy of the stuff in the RKM V2.  I assume that even though there are
UBYTE and UWORD declarations scattered throughout, everything (parameters)
wants to be 32 bits, right?

> 	 files.  The +B option tells the compiler not to generate a 
> 	 reference to the startup code.  Manx 3.4 has a 'super compatibility'
> 	 option for cc... +p , which might be good to stick in if you have 3.4.
                                                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I do, and I might try that if all else fails.
> 
> 	-When you link everything together, the TAGS.ASM file should go first.
Yeah...I picked that up right away from the manuals.

> 	 In fact, you shouldn't even have to include CL.LIB (large model C.LIB)
> 	 unless you use support functions from that lib.
The driver uses AllocMem for the double boofers and it does call OpenLibrary.

> 	-Don't use DOS unless you've specifically openned the DOS library
This one still bugs me a little.  There are some XDEF's for _SysBase, 
_Open, _Close (no-ops), etc., that over-ride equivalents in the Aztec
library.  I am assuming that this is ok, as long as the linker REALLY IS
over-riding all references.  
> 
> 					-Matt

Mark
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