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From: spolsky-joel@cs.yale.edu (Joel Spolsky)
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Subject: Re: Debugging Windows bug??
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Date: 7 Dec 90 02:38:53 GMT
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In article <2439.275e28c1@waikato.ac.nz> iam@waikato.ac.nz (Ian McDonald) writes:
>I am wondering if there is a known bug with the debugging version of Windows
>3.0.  I have been using that version and my program kept dying with a System
>Error Box which said "Cannot read from device AUX" and gace the options of
>Cancel or Retry - pressing either caused the message to show again. 


the debugging version of windows is trying to write an error message
out the communications port. You are supposed to have a terminal
plugged in there. If you have a mono monitor but no terminal, somebody
posted a device driver ox.sys here that redirects the AUX output to
the mono monitor.

Joel Spolsky
spolsky@cs.yale.edu                                     Silence = Death