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- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
- Path: sparky!uunet!dcatlas!joet
- From: joet@dcatlas.dot.gov (Joe Trott)
- Subject: Re: Any idea why NUL is busy inside of windows?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.202411.3690@dcatlas.dot.gov>
- Organization: U.S Dept. of Transportation
- References: <6126@transfer.stratus.com>
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 20:24:11 GMT
- Lines: 21
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- leadfoot@bigbootay.sw.stratus.com (Mark Curtis) writes:
-
- >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 is hard to resist thinking that this is an act of self preservation on
- the part of Windows. Only by plugging up NUL can it prevent itself from
- being sucked into the void where it belongs.
-
- (Sorry...just got carried away for a moment...)
-
- Seriously, do you need more file handles? Just a wild guess...
-
- -JTT
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