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- From: leadfoot@bigbootay.sw.stratus.com (Mark Curtis)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
- Subject: Any idea why NUL is busy inside of windows?
- Message-ID: <6126@transfer.stratus.com>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 01:09:45 GMT
- Sender: usenet@transfer.stratus.com
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- I can not get MS's C7 pwb to compile inside a dos window. It gets
- a sharing violation on the dev NUL. NUL is used to throw away
- unwanted output. Outside of windows all is fine, but inside a dos
- window any write accesses to NUL produce share violations.
-
- copy \autoexec.bat nul inside a dos window causes A/R/F
- error message. PWB displays an
- error prompt and aborts.
-
- It isn't pwb that is causing the problem. Start windows, open a dos
- window, and try the above copy. Yes you do need to have share loaded.
-
- Any ideas on how to get around this?
-
- Works fine outside of windows.
-
- Mark
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