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- From: colfelt@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Andrew BW Colfelt)
- Subject: Re: Can't pipe to NUL in a dos session - Help please!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.182227.12451@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
- Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
- References: <168A28014.ANAVARRO@vm.poly.edu> <1992Nov18.175648.17461@rei.com>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 18:22:27 GMT
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- fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox) writes:
-
- >It's possible that in your AUTOEXEC you loaded a TSR and piped its
- >output to NUL in order to avoid seeing the startup text on the screen.
- >Since the TSR never exits, it may not have closed the standard output
- >device (NUL, in this case), and thus further attempts to modify that
- >device result in a sharing violoation.
-
- Oooh, that's interesting.
-
- I always thought that piping > NUL was just a
- fancy @ECHO OFF statement, but this comment leads
- me to believe that it is not as innocuous as I
- believed.
-
- Could you explain "Since the TSR never exits" in
- more detail?
-
-
- --
- Andrew
- Colfelt@ucsu.Colorado.EDU
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