1. Re: fossil driver
- Posted by Jacques Deschenes <desja at GLOBETROTTER.QC.CA>
Apr 29, 1998
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Last edited Apr 30, 1998
At 05:42 29-04-98 -0500, you wrote:
>Anyone used the ports.e routines for interfacing with a fossil driver? I'd be
Fossil driver work thrue interrupt #15 so I don't think you need ports.e to inte
rface to it. What you need is dos_interrupt(). It seem that I wrongly named por
ts.e, many people seem to think that it is related to serial port communication.
It is not, in hardware talk a port is a register that code write to or read f
rom to access any peripheral. It could be hard disk, video card or cmos chip.
To come back to fossil driver. I never tested it but I know that there is to f
lavors. the TSR type and the "dos driver" type. If the driver name extension
is .SYS it is a "dos driver" an should be installed from config.sys
if the extension is .EXE or .COM it is a TSR and should be installed from autoex
ec.bat. Once it is installed on your system. Your euphoria code should use the
interrupt #15 interface to communicate with it. See the doc that comes with the
driver for more information. I hope this will help you.
Regards,
Jacques Deschenes
Baie-Comeau, Quebec
Canada
desja at globetrotter.qc.ca
