Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!husc6!rutgers!princeton!rocksvax!martyl From: martyl@rocksvax.UUCP (Marty Leisner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: How do you remove a device driver without a warm boot? Message-ID: <151@rocksvax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 24-Jul-87 17:30:54 EDT Article-I.D.: rocksvax.151 Posted: Fri Jul 24 17:30:54 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Jul-87 15:50:37 EDT References: <238@macom1.UUCP> Reply-To: martyl@rocksvax.UUCP (Marty Leisner) Organization: Xerox: Henrietta, NY Lines: 26 Keywords: driver device config.sys In article <238@macom1.UUCP> roth@macom1.UUCP (dennis paul roth) writes: > >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. >-- Good question. I'm not sure its worth the trouble -- agood way to do device driver work is to use two machine -- ones for development and one for test. On PCs running without any protection, I have qualms about working on a machine where the device drivers are changing without any hardware protection. A few things to think about: 1) I don't think the memory could be released. But if the new image fits inside the old image, you could overwrite the image and rebuild the pointers and whatever else DOS did. 2) You could debug you device driver as an application program. Then when you're about done, you can install it. Hope this helps. marty leisner xerox corp leisner.henr@xerox.com martyl@rocksvax.uucp