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Date: Sat, 27 Dec 1997 19:11:19 -0800 (PST)
From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To: David McHugh <nomad96@ibm.net>
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Subject: Re: Device Drivers
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what you start off doing depends on a number of things:
1/ how is the device attached to the system
2/ what sort of API do you want to provide.
3/ what version OS are you doing this on.


On Sat, 27 Dec 1997, David McHugh wrote:

> I'm looking for information for writing a device driver for a Relisys
> Infinity (Tarus) Scanner.  I have programmed in the past but never wrote
> a device driver before.  I would appreciate any help.
> 
> 
> 			nomad96@ibm.net
>