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| 7519 | 2005-02-10 04:03:00 | That's one of the better errors. It means that your cassette recorder (the AUX device) wasn't plugged in, or was turned off, or had no tape in it. ;) You haven't got a cassette recorder for programme and data storage on your PC? :eek: |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 7520 | 2005-02-10 23:25:00 | no I do not have a cassette recorder. I have no idea what is causing this. | badrock1983 (255) | ||
| 7521 | 2005-02-11 02:55:00 | Ahem, Graham has his tongue in cheek, cassette recorders aren't used these days! and Merlin is being cryptic :) What that error message means is that dos or windows is trying to load a device which does not exist, eg a floppy drive, or even a virtual device. That sort of message also arises if you use a reserved name for a file, or maybe even a directory. EG if you had a directory/folder called AUX you would probably get that message. It is described by Microsoft here: support.microsoft.com But then the system may also be calling up a non existent device, maybe from c:\windows\win.ini Have a look in that file with a text editor and see if there is a device being loaded under [Devices] that you havent got. Then again, Ive read that a virtual CD program that allows you to load a CD to hard drive and run it from the hard drive instead of CD has also caused this error message. I confess I dont know how to tell if a start up file has been modified, as mentioned by Merlin, if I didn't know what the file said to start with. Also look in c:\windows\start menu\programs\startup to see if there is anything odd that you dont have being called up |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 7522 | 2005-02-11 03:04:00 | Just to add a bit neither DOS nor Windows (98SE) allows me to create a folder or a file with a reserved name, so how this could arise I'm not sure :@@: | Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 7523 | 2005-02-12 01:19:00 | :thumbs: Here's the belated smiley. It used to be possible to create a file in DOS with a reserved device name. Even making a file with an extension like LPT caused problems. They weren't "unpredictable" results once you twigged; just unwanted. AUX was really the name of the cassette recorder interface on the original IBM PC in 1981. After all, a 320kB floppy cost $US525. Only rich people could afford two. Hard disks for PCs were in the future. In CP/M (from which DOS was "derived") AUX was usually the papertape reader punch for those who could afford (or borrow) a Teletype. Cheapskates like me built a Kansas City interface to use cassettes. (That would record and play at 1200 bps (relatively) reliably and, sometimes, at 2400 bps. At 2400 bps you were relying on one cycle of tone to identify a bit. |
Graham L (2) | ||
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