iam@waikato.ac.nz (Ian McDonald) (12/06/90)
I am wondering if there is a known bug with the debugging version of Windows 3.0. I have been using that version and my program kept dying with a System Error Box which said "Cannot read from device AUX" and gace the options of Cancel or Retry - pressing either caused the message to show again. After a lot of frustration trying to work out what was going on I decided to try the non-debugging version - just in case it made a difference. It did!! My program ran fine!! Does anybody have ANY clue about this?? If you mail me I can't mail back replies to you - I only have posting rights in Usenet - not mail. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ian McDonald | 52 Cook Street| Hamilton | This space free for advertising !! New Zealand | +64-71-563438 | I can receive mail but can't reply to it.
spolsky-joel@cs.yale.edu (Joel Spolsky) (12/07/90)
In article <2439.275e28c1@waikato.ac.nz> iam@waikato.ac.nz (Ian McDonald) writes: >I am wondering if there is a known bug with the debugging version of Windows >3.0. I have been using that version and my program kept dying with a System >Error Box which said "Cannot read from device AUX" and gace the options of >Cancel or Retry - pressing either caused the message to show again. the debugging version of windows is trying to write an error message out the communications port. You are supposed to have a terminal plugged in there. If you have a mono monitor but no terminal, somebody posted a device driver ox.sys here that redirects the AUX output to the mono monitor. Joel Spolsky spolsky@cs.yale.edu Silence = Death