Null Device

NTDEV
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I have a program that goes out and tries to open the NUL device. This works
fine in XP Pro, but I also need to run it in XP Embedded. It turns out that
using objdir [osronline] I found that XP embedded has the global NUL
symlink, but the actual Null Device that it points to is missing.

Can anyone recomend the best way to get that device on the system? Is there
simply a driver that I can copy over from XP Pro?

Thanks!
-Jeff

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NULL driver… probably NULL.SYS

Any reason that doesn’t work for you? If you’re asking, in general, do drivers from Windows XP Pro work on Windows XP Embedded the answer is “yes”.

Any license issues that might be involved with redisting a random executable from XP Pro in your embedded environment are left as an exercise to the OP.

Peter
OSR