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From: goodearl@world.std.com (Robert D Goodearl)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Getting simple debug output
Summary: OutputDebugString goes to debugger or aux port
Message-ID: <1990Aug6.131201.7059@world.std.com>
Date: 6 Aug 90 13:12:01 GMT
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In article <11364@netcom.UUCP> mojo@netcom.UUCP (Morris Jones) writes:
>There is a debug facility provided which (I'm told) is part of the WDEB386
>debugger, but I've found that it works whether the debugger is loaded or
>not.
>
>	OutputDebugString(LPSTR msg);
>
>writes "msg" to COM1:.

The documentation states that OutputDebugString() will send its output to the
debugger (CodeView or WDEB386) if present, or to the aux port.

Bob Goodearl -- goodearl@world.std.com