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Re: MPD Builder
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lugnet.cad
Date: 
Tue, 16 Feb 1999 13:53:34 GMT
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On Tue, 16 Feb 1999 08:49:50 GMT, sparre@sys-323.risoe.dk (Jacob Sparre
Andersen) wrote:

Steve Bliss (blisses@worldnet.att.net) wrote:
Actually, one anomoly I noticed is that the processing messages aren't
written to stdout.  I couldn't pipe them to a file.  I don't know if
this is strictly a DOS-thing, or an Ada-thing, or something else.

This is kind of a Unix thing. You write error and processing
messages to stderr so they don't interfer with the data flow
(Unix uses pipes a lot).

OK, I can't argue with that.

I can't remember how you redirect stderr to stdout in DOS
(but it should be in the manuals).

Hmm.  I could be wrong, but I don't think there is any reasonable way to
manage stderr.  Definitely no command-line directive (like piping), and
I can't find any command in the reference.  Oh, well.  Not a big deal.

Steve



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(...) You can with just about any decent 3rd-party command shell, e.g. 4DOS (1), bash, etc. Cheers, - jsproat 1. For those unfamiliar with it, 4DOS is a command.com almost-clone, with a ton of new (and useful) features that you'd normally find in (...) (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad)

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(...) This is kind of a Unix thing. You write error and processing messages to stderr so they don't interfer with the data flow (Unix uses pipes a lot). I can't remember how you redirect stderr to stdout in DOS (but it should be in the manuals). (...) (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad)

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