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While modifying the boot disk this time, I kept thinking about one question: Win98's Plug and Play function is implemented through HWINFO + INF. First it uses HWINFO to find out the hardware model, then it searches the device's INF document in the WINDOWS\INF folder, and installs the driver according to the description in the INF document.

So under DOS this function could also be implemented: use HWINFO to find out the hardware model, and load the driver according to the result.
Its biggest use would be loading sound cards and network cards. It's especially useful on a boot CD; by then it would really be possible to get online and use multimedia.

Then talk about the specific method?

Yeah, talk about how to implement it... for example DUSE...

This is only an idea of mine, and in principle it can be implemented; what I said above is the basic idea. The actual implementation will still depend on WENGIER and everyone studying it together. HWINFO has several small tools, and these tools will record the detected configuration. What we need to do is read the hardware information from the document, assign the hardware information to variables, and then use batch files to call the relevant driver programs according to the variable values.
The key problem is how to set the text information from the file into variables. As long as we can find such a tool, everything will be OK.
For example, if a kind of sound card is found, HWINFO will record it in the corresponding document in the UTILS folder. At that time, use a batch file to set that sound card information into the sound card variable. Finally, extract and load that sound card driver from the complete sound card program package.

Mm... that's a good line of thought... moderator yiyesong is really amazing... hehe~~~~~~~

I can't handle the actual implementation yet... but the new moderator kevinet really does have that ability... He's proficient in C++, hardware operation, software use, boot disk creation, English, Russian, German, and so on...

Actually it's not hard to implement, as long as we can find a tool that can set text information from a document into variables. wengier, you mean kevinet knows three foreign languages? That's incredible. What exactly does he do?

The following is quoted from yiyesong's post at 2003-6-26 20:41:59:
Actually it's not hard to implement, as long as we can find a tool that can set text information from a document into variables.

How could it be that easy? To make DOS truly support PnP, there are still a lot of related things to deal with... And there is so much hardware too; it's impossible for just one or two people to make it call each one separately.

The tool for setting text information from a document into variables can be designed by ourselves, using C/C++—a real product of CDU itself! Also, I want to ask everyone this: on a worldwide scale, does DOS already support PnP? If not a single company has yet developed a DOS that supports PnP, then we really have to pay attention to the problem of key technology leaks; this is a trade secret! You should know that in the future our China DOS Union will take off on the strength of this technology!

KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKk, the backwardness of China's software industry is exactly because of this so-called conservatism. Dizzy......

The following is quoted from siton's post at 2003-7-15 16:04:28:
KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKk, the backwardness of China's software industry is exactly because of this so-called conservatism. Dizzy......

What conservatism? Explain yourself a bit more clearly?

There are PnP managers under DOS. For example, CTCM.EXE is one.