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From: roth@macom1.UUCP (dennis paul roth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: How do you remove a device driver without a warm boot?
Message-ID: <238@macom1.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 23-Jul-87 18:02:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: macom1.238
Posted: Thu Jul 23 18:02:00 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 25-Jul-87 09:13:57 EDT
Organization: CENTEL Business Information Systems INC.,Rockville, MD.
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Keywords: driver device config.sys


I have an image processing workstation built around a Zenith 248 running
under MS-DOS 3.1. The Device Drivers for the image capture board and
the laser printer are such memory hogs that if they are both installed
at the same time there isn't enough memory left over to run the image
processing software. So two versions of the config.sys file exist, one that
loads the laser printer driver with the DEVICE command, another that doesn't.
Now if I want to capture, process, and print images I've got to boot the
system with the config.sys file without the laser printer device driver 
capture and process the image, save the image, change the config.sys file to the
one with the laser printer driver, reboot, print the image, then change
the config.sys back again and reboot to capture the next image.

There must be an easier way. No?

My question is. Does anyone out there know how to uninstall a device
driver and release the memory it was using without doing a warm boot?
I will be eternally gratefull to anyone who can assist me with this problem.
-- 
Dennis Roth @ CENTEL Information Systems, Inc. 5515 Security Lane, Rockville, 
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