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Article #1134Re: Can't pipe to NUL in a dos session - Help please!
From: Andrew BW Colfelt
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 18:22
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 18:22
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fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox) writes: >It's possible that in your AUTOEXEC you loaded a TSR and piped its >output to NUL in order to avoid seeing the startup text on the screen. >Since the TSR never exits, it may not have closed the standard output >device (NUL, in this case), and thus further attempts to modify that >device result in a sharing violoation. Oooh, that's interesting. I always thought that piping > NUL was just a fancy @ECHO OFF statement, but this comment leads me to believe that it is not as innocuous as I believed. Could you explain "Since the TSR never exits" in more detail? -- Andrew Colfelt@ucsu.Colorado.EDU --
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!spool.mu.edu!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!csn!boulder!ucsu!colfelt From: colfelt@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Andrew BW Colfelt) Subject: Re: Can't pipe to NUL in a dos session - Help please! Message-ID: <1992Nov21.182227.12451@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder References: <168A28014.ANAVARRO@vm.poly.edu> <1992Nov18.175648.17461@rei.com> Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 18:22:27 GMT Lines: 23