[MPlayer-cvslog] r22455 - trunk/TOOLS/README

[The Wanderer]

Diego Biurrun wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 10:36:22PM -0500, The Wanderer wrote:
> 
>> Diego Biurrun wrote:
>> 
>>> On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 04:44:35PM +0100, compn wrote:
>> 
>>>> +              -d|--driver filename - dll or drv to load
>>> 
>>> DLL
>>> 
>>> What's 'drv'?
>> 
>> Some Windows driver files (particularly old ones, in my experience)
>> have filenames ending in .drv.
> 
> This should be clarified somehow.  Do you have a good suggestion?

Off the top of my head I don't have anything better than "DLL or
(old-style) DRV", which isn't particularly good - but it does indicate,
by parallelism with the .dll extension, that "drv" is a file extension,
and in any case people who will need to use such a file are likely to be
in a position to know what this is referring to simply by virtue of
knowing that they have a file with that extension.

In other words, no, not really. I'll probably spend some time thinking
about it while away from the computer, and maybe turn something up in a
day or two, but don't hold your breath.

(Do we even know of an example of a .drv file which would be appropriate
to be loaded by this option? The only ones I remember off the top of my
head from the old Win3.x days were keyboard, mouse and *maybe* text-mode
display drivers...)

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