Re: Any idea why NUL is busy inside of windows?

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From: Fuzzy Fox
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1992 00:06

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Is it possible that you are loading a TSR in your AUTOEXEC which pipes
its output to NUL?  If so, the TSR might leave the file handle open and
cause sharing violations when another program tries to write to NUL.

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From: fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox)
Subject: Re: Any idea why NUL is busy inside of windows?
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Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 00:06:54 GMT
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