Hi,

On Fri, Jul 8, 2022 at 3:11 PM Eric Stein <th...@indnile.com> wrote:
>
> So I get this message when I exit from a certain program: Error reading
> from device AUX: write fault.
>
> Aside from the strangeness of getting a write fault by reading
> something, does DOS even still have an AUX device?  I think this is a
> generic device name like PRN that can be redirected to something else,
> but the MODE command doesn't seem to know what it is.

AUX is just COM1 (serial), PRN is just LPT1 (parallel).

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS#Reserved_device_names
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_file#PC_DOS,_TOS,_OS/2,_and_Windows


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