On Wednesday, April 2, 2003, at 07:21 AM, Troy Mello wrote: > Are plug-ins and drivers the same thing? Or is a driver just one type > of plug-in?
A driver is a program used by the operating system to talk to a device. Usually, without a driver, no program can use the device because the operating system has no interface through which it can send its commands. A plug-in is a small program that adds features to another program. For example, Web browsers use plug-ins to learn about Acrobat and QuickTime files and graphics programs use plug-ins to learn about scanners, or to handle non-native file types. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be March 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
