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RE: [Q] What does DRVO_LEGACY_DRIVER mean?

OSR_Community_UserOSR_Community_User Member Posts: 110,217
To: "NT Developers Interest List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 2:59 PM


> Matt, did you simply update the dllcharacteristic in DriverEntry or were
> you able to change your source environment such that it came up set? If
> so, how?

I'm using Borland C++ 5.x to build the driver. I have a program that turns
the output Win32 DLL into a .sys file (just update some of the headers, redo
checksum, etc..). I added a line there to add the WDM flag to the
DllCharacteristics field.

- Matt
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