Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!igor!dsb@Rational.COM
From: dsb@Rational.COM (David S. Bakin)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: "System Error:  Cannot write to device AUX"
Message-ID: <523@igor.Rational.COM>
Date: 12 Feb 89 05:50:26 GMT
Sender: news@igor.Rational.COM
Reply-To: dsb@Rational.COM (David S. Bakin)
Organization: Rational
Lines: 18

My Windows system started acting funny in the following way after installing
the debugging version from the SDK 2.1.  Now I'll try do do something, 
probably involving reading from the disk, and a System Error dialog will
pop up saying "Cannot write to device AUX".  Then clicking Retry or Cancel
has no effect -- there's no way to leave this state without rebooting the
machine.  This happens at random times in various applications, most 
frequently in the dialog editor.

Has anyone seen this?  What's the solution?  Thanks!  -- Dave

Particulars:  Windows/286 on a 640Kb machine w/ some LIM 4.0 memory, running
RAMDrive 2.10, SMARTDrive 2.10 and Himem 2.04.  Configured for 2 printers
on serial ports, one PCL, one Postscript, though in fact no printers are
attached.
----------------------------------------------------------
Dave Bakin				    (408) 496-3600
c/o Rational; 3320 Scott Blvd.; Santa Clara, CA 95054-3197
Internet:  dsb@rational.com	 Uucp:  ...!uunet!igor!dsb