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- From: azarian@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Randy Azarian)
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 23:06:54 GMT
- Subject: Re: MSC 7.0 windows debug mode and 'Cant read from device AUX'
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- I do not agree that DBWIN is not useful in the standard kernel. It is very
- useful to do OutputDebugStrings in my code as I am debugging. Additionally,
- I have noticed that DBWIN does display quite a few "warning" messages in the
- standard kernel, albeit probaby insignificant, although I think it will report
- unfreed memory handles, and the like.
-
- When running the debug kernel, placing DBWIN in the startup may not be
- sufficient to eliminate the 'Cannot write to AUX' message (as things that
- write to AUX may get loaded before DBWIN). In this case, place a line in
- your system.ini file:
-
- [Debug]
- OutputTo=NUL
-
- I have also noticed that (for some unknown reason) periodically DBWIN will
- turn itself off by sending its output to NONE. When this happens, if the
- OutputTo= is not set to NUL the machine will effectively hang until the
- offending application trying to write to AUX is terminated (via Ctl-Alt-Del).
-