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From: mikeoro@hubcap.clemson.edu (Michael K O'Rourke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Opening Drivers
Message-ID: <7421@hubcap.clemson.edu>
Date: 14 Dec 89 03:49:38 GMT
Organization: Clemson University, Clemson, SC
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I have a couple questions about drivers:

First, I know that there are a certain number of "slots" for use by
drivers and da's.  Does my driver have to be numbered as one of those
slots?  For instance, I am opening the driver from an INIT and the driver
will continue to run in the background while the machine is running.  Am
i going to have to look thru the system file at boot time to see if there
is an empty slot, renumber my driver and then open it?  I read the device
manager stuff but am still confused on this point.  My guess is that the
refNum passed by OpenDriver() will give me the slot i am in.  Is this correct?

Thanx,
Michael