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Conclusion

This manual describes how to write a device server. Device servers vary enormously in their complexity and it is difficult without writing a thesis on the topic to treat all the possibilities of device servers in a single document. It is hoped however that the manual describes sufficiently the process of writing device server that beginners can start being effective quite soon after reading this manual. The best way to start is to actually write a device class and then encapsulate it in a server. To do this all that is necessary is a device, this manual and the class generator. Once the basics of device server writing have been grasped the programmer will see how simple the entire process is actually.

Very few manuals are perfect and this is surely not one of them. The author will gladly accept any useful or constructive criticism on how to improve it.



Andy Goetz
Tue Jan 28 13:58:13 MET 1997