Hallo, Paul!

*** Am 08. November 1996 um 15:02 schrieb Paul Edwards an Peter Fitzsimmons:

 PF>> rc = DosOpen("DOS$",
 PE> 2. Is it documented that putting a $ sign on the end of DosOpen
 PE> starts communication with the driver of that name?  (GUIREF20 for
 PE> DosOpen doesn't appear to make a mention of that).

If you have a look into dos.sys you'll notice that the driver registers
itself with the name DOS$. com.sys registers COM1 COM2 etc.

In general, the answer to your question is "no". You just have to
DosOpen the correct name the driver expects.

IBM delivers on the DevCon in AIXLIKE a nice Unix port of
"strings", a program that extracts readable parts from binary
files.

153:/ttick # strings C:\\os2\\boot\\dos.sys
!This program cannot be run in a DOS session.
dosdd
dos.DLL
DOS$


Tschau...Thomas

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