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Re: What the heck is this AUX device?

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From: Pete Kvitek
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 1991 11:57
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In article <161@cf_su20.cf_su10.Sbi.COM> nee@cf_su14.Sbi.Com (Robert Nee) writes:
>I would like to point something out to programmers with a 
>second monitor.  If you run the device driver OX.SYS then
>you can tell the SDK spy application to route it's output
>to COM1 a.k.a AUX a.k.a your second monitor.  This is 
>very helpful and I use it alot.

I'm using OX.SYS even in dos mode -- to put something on the secondary
monitor while i'm working on the primary one. For example, if you're going
to do some work which requires file name riminder: dir *.zip > aux
> Pete

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From: kvitekp@jvd.msk.su (Pete Kvitek)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: What the heck is this AUX device?
Message-ID: <1991Feb06.115711.9221@jvd.msk.su>
Date: 6 Feb 91 11:57:11 GMT
References: <1991Feb2.223122.26046@world.std.com> <1991Jan31.182905.7337@javelin.es.com> <aD5ow17w163w@mantis.co.uk> <161@cf_su20.cf_su10.Sbi.COM>
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Organization: JV Dialogue, Moscow, USSR
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