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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
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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