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| 1 | + |
| 2 | + DEVLOAD 3.23 USER GUIDE |
| 3 | + ----------------------- |
| 4 | + |
| 5 | + DEVLOAD is an utility for loading device drivers from command line. |
| 6 | + It supports FAT16 and FAT32 block device drivers (e.g. DI1000DD.SYS |
| 7 | + and ASPIDISK.SYS), COM and EXE - style DOS device drivers and has a |
| 8 | + very compact binary file (less than 3KiB). |
| 9 | + |
| 10 | + Licence |
| 11 | + ------- |
| 12 | + |
| 13 | + Devload - a tool to load DOS device drivers from the command line |
| 14 | + Copyright (c) 1992-1998 David Woodhouse < [email protected]> |
| 15 | + Copyright (c) 2004-2008 Eric Auer < [email protected]> |
| 16 | + Copyright (c) 2011 |
| 17 | + |
| 18 | + This program is free software you can redistribute it and/or modify |
| 19 | + it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by |
| 20 | + the Free Software Foundation either version 2 of the License, or |
| 21 | + (at your option) any later version. |
| 22 | + |
| 23 | + This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, |
| 24 | + but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY without even the implied warranty of |
| 25 | + MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the |
| 26 | + GNU General Public License for more details. |
| 27 | + |
| 28 | + You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along |
| 29 | + with this program if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., |
| 30 | + 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA. |
| 31 | + |
| 32 | + Usage |
| 33 | + ----- |
| 34 | + |
| 35 | + Usage: DEVLOAD [switches] filename [params] |
| 36 | + Emulates: DEVICE=filename [params] in CONFIG.SYS |
| 37 | + |
| 38 | + Switches: |
| 39 | + |
| 40 | + /? - display help message. |
| 41 | + /H - try to load driver to UMB. |
| 42 | + (equivalent of DEVICEHIGH=filename [params] in CONFIG.SYS) |
| 43 | + /Q - quiet mode. |
| 44 | + /V - verbose mode. |
| 45 | + /A - auto-mode (force to stay loaded). |
| 46 | + |
| 47 | + Explanations: |
| 48 | + |
| 49 | + If no filename is given or if the /? option is given, DEVLOAD |
| 50 | + shows a help message. The /Q mode makes DEVLOAD show fewer |
| 51 | + messages than usual (only warnings) while /V makes it show |
| 52 | + more messages, including technical and memory usage details. |
| 53 | + |
| 54 | + The /A option bypasses the "driver wants to stay in RAM but |
| 55 | + hooks no interrupts and provides no block nor char devices, |
| 56 | + keep it in RAM anyway?" question by always assuming that the |
| 57 | + answer is yes. Only very few drivers are affected by this. |
| 58 | + |
| 59 | + With the /H option, DEVLOAD will try to behave like DEVICEHIGH |
| 60 | + and load your driver into UMB. If you have no UMB of sufficient |
| 61 | + size (at least file size or, if exe header present, load size |
| 62 | + plus minimum heap according to the exe header), the driver will |
| 63 | + be loaded into low RAM as if you had not used the /H option. |
| 64 | + |
| 65 | + Note that your driver may say that your UMB is too small even |
| 66 | + if DEVLOAD thinks it is sufficient. Then your driver will not |
| 67 | + load and you will have to load without the /H option instead. |
| 68 | + |
| 69 | + Examples: |
| 70 | + |
| 71 | + 1) USBASPI from command line |
| 72 | + DEVLOAD /H USBASPI.SYS /V /W |
| 73 | + DEVLOAD /H DI1000DD.SYS |
| 74 | + |
| 75 | + 2) ASPI driver for IDE (e.g. for CDRTOOLS) |
| 76 | + DEVLOAD ASPI.SYS |
| 77 | + |
| 78 | + System requirements |
| 79 | + ------------------- |
| 80 | + |
| 81 | + * DOS 3.00 and higher |
| 82 | + * Intel 8086 CPU, 640KiB of RAM |
| 83 | + * MS-DOS 7.1/8.0, PC-DOS 7.1, LZ-DOS 7.1, |
| 84 | + FreeDOS 1.0 or EDR-DOS WIP 17.6.2007+ |
| 85 | + for FAT32 block device drivers support |
| 86 | + |
| 87 | + WARNING: DEVLOAD cannot load FAT32 block device drivers under PTS-DOS 32! |
| 88 | + |
| 89 | + Files |
| 90 | + ----- |
| 91 | + |
| 92 | + DEVLOAD.COM Binary file. You only need this file to run DEVLOAD |
| 93 | + DEVLOAD.ASM Source code for NASM, version history information |
| 94 | + MAKEDEVL.BAT "Make" script for NASM and UPX (see URLs below) |
| 95 | + README.TXT The file you are reading right now :-) |
| 96 | + READ.ME Note about origin of DEVLOAD with FreeDOS (TM) |
| 97 | + LICENCE.TXT GNU GPL v2, DEVLOAD is free open source software |
| 98 | + |
| 99 | + Compilation |
| 100 | + ----------- |
| 101 | + |
| 102 | + Install NASM and UPX and run MAKEDEVL.BAT |
| 103 | + |
| 104 | + UPX: http://upx.sourceforge.net/ |
| 105 | + NASM: http://nasm.sourceforge.net/ |
| 106 | + |
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