Does anyone know what the fundamental difference is between a generic text driver and a windows device driver (i.e. one that supplies peripheral information)?

As far as I can see the only difference is that generic drivers send all data as ASCII code.

Hi James

I'm glad you asked that question

The fundamental difference I thnk is that the generic drivers are more of a generic type and the windows drivers are more specific to windows.

This may seem obvious but the are certain things that are different

Hope that helps


Does anyone know what the fundamental difference is between a generic text driver and a windows device driver (i.e. one that supplies peripheral information)?

As far as I can see the only difference is that generic drivers send all data as ASCII code.

Hi James

I'm glad you asked that question

The fundamental difference I thnk is that the generic drivers are more of a generic type and the windows drivers are more specific to windows.

This may seem obvious but the are certain things that are different

Hope that helps


huh???? can anybody understand the above? it makes no sense at all

"generic drivers are more generic than windows drivers???"

sheech....

A generic driver is one that has the BASIC feature set common to all devices. and this can be a DOS, WIndows, Linux or what not driver. the os is not important. THE FEATURE SET IS!!!

a good example would be the "Generic" Printer driver for both DOS and Windows... this driver only implements the Basic ASCI character set that is common to ALL PRINTERS (A-Z upper/lowercase and 1-0 and some symbols) a SPECIFIC Printer driver will have all of the basic ASCI set and also ad Underlining, superscript, bit mapped graphics, color printing and so on that is unique to that printer model.

this is why a generic printer driver will work on allmost all printers and a vendor specific driver will work on the units it was designed for.

this concept applys to any other device.