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Article #1178What the heck is this AUX device?
From: Lynn Wallace
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 1991 18:29
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 1991 18:29
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Several of the Microsoft SDK sample programs, as well as Notepad and others, cause my system to hang for about a minute, then display an "error writing to device AUX/cancel/retry" message. If I'm lucky, this is a one-time msg, but it usually shows up as an infinite(?) loop. I conjecture this: The AUX is supposed to be my auxillary monitor, which I don't have, and the message is coming from the debugging version of Windows which detects a normally passable condition but wishes to inform me of the "problem". This sounds pretty naive I know, but I'm fairly new to PC's in general, and all my knowledge of the PC is in the Windows environment. I don't even know if I've got the debugging version of the kernal installed... (This hasn't stopped me from writing an application though.:-) -- Lynn Wallace |I speak for absolutely no one. Evans and Sutherland Computer Corp.| Salt Lake City, UT 84108 |Internet: lwallace@javelin.sim.es.com War not make one great! -- Yoda
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!bcm!dimacs.rutgers.edu!seismo!uunet!orca!javelin.es.com!lwallace From: lwallace@javelin.es.com (Lynn Wallace) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer Subject: What the heck is this AUX device? Message-ID: <1991Jan31.182905.7337@javelin.es.com> Date: 31 Jan 91 18:29:05 GMT Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp., Salt Lake City, Utah Lines: 18