http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=DOS_device_driver 2026-05-14T12:37:40Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.19.2 http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=DOS_device_driver&diff=50513&oldid=prev 2025-07-15T19:46:14Z

<p></p> <table class='diff diff-contentalign-left'> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 19:46, 15 July 2025</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 5:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 5:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>DOS device drivers (often simply known as '''SYS''' files) are stored in a simple binary format.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>DOS device drivers (often simply known as '''SYS''' files) are stored in a simple binary format.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The filename extension &lt;code&gt;DEV&lt;/code&gt; is used by the [[FreeDOS]] printer driver tool &lt;code&gt;SPOOL&lt;/code&gt;.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The filename extension &lt;code&gt;DEV&lt;/code&gt; is used by the [[FreeDOS]] printer driver tool &lt;code&gt;SPOOL&lt;/code&gt;.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>For the block device driver of the compression software <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'''</del>Stacker<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'''</del>,</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>For the block device driver of the compression software <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>Stacker<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>,</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>which was also included in some versions of the '''DR-DOS''' operating system or the '''Novell DOS''' and '''Caldera OpenDOS''' offshoots,</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>which was also included in some versions of the '''DR-DOS''' operating system or the '''Novell DOS''' and '''Caldera OpenDOS''' offshoots,</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>the filename extension &lt;code&gt;BIN&lt;/code&gt; is used.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>the filename extension &lt;code&gt;BIN&lt;/code&gt; is used.</div></td></tr> </table>

Jsummers http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=DOS_device_driver&diff=45364&oldid=prev 2023-09-06T19:35:03Z

<p>fixed link</p> <table class='diff diff-contentalign-left'> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 19:35, 6 September 2023</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 22:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 22:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/repositories/latest/util/spool.zip → SPOOL.DEV</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/repositories/latest/util/spool.zip → SPOOL.DEV</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* https://www.uwe-sieber.de/files/cfg_echo.zip → echo.sys</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* https://www.uwe-sieber.de/files/cfg_echo.zip → echo.sys</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">http</del>://ftp.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">uni-bayreuth</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">de</del>/<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">pc</del>/<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">caldera</del>/DR-DOS.703/images/disk02.144 → STACLOAD.BIN</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">https</ins>://ftp.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">zx</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">net.nz/pub/archive</ins>/<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">novell</ins>/<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">caldera_drdos</ins>/DR-DOS.703/images/disk02.144 → STACLOAD.BIN</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>== Links ==</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>== Links ==</div></td></tr> </table>

Shio http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=DOS_device_driver&diff=37008&oldid=prev 2020-08-09T23:37:33Z

<p>also BIN and DEV extension + examples</p> <table class='diff diff-contentalign-left'> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 23:37, 9 August 2020</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>{{FormatInfo</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>{{FormatInfo</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>&#160; | subcat = Executables</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; 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J2j http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=DOS_device_driver&diff=27479&oldid=prev 2017-03-29T16:29:24Z

<p>Category:MS-DOS</p> <table class='diff diff-contentalign-left'> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 16:29, 29 March 2017</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 11:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 11:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>== Links ==</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>== Links ==</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* [http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/doc/rbinter/it/46/16.html SYS file structure in Ralf Brown's]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* [http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/doc/rbinter/it/46/16.html SYS file structure in Ralf Brown's]</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Category:MS-DOS]]</ins></div></td></tr> </table>

Jsummers http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=DOS_device_driver&diff=21230&oldid=prev 2015-03-10T08:25:24Z

<p>new</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{FormatInfo<br /> | subcat = Executables<br /> | extensions = {{ext|dos}}, {{ext|sys}}<br /> }}<br /> DOS device drivers (often simply known as '''SYS''' files) are stored in a simple binary format.<br /> <br /> Drivers are loaded into a contiguous block of memory; the segment part of data structure pointers is then adjusted to match the loading segment.<br /> <br /> Some device drivers are stored in the [[MS-DOS EXE|MZ]] format instead of the &quot;raw&quot; SYS format.<br /> <br /> == Links ==<br /> * [http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/doc/rbinter/it/46/16.html SYS file structure in Ralf Brown's]</div>

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