Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/01/12/19:31:48
On Sun, 12 Jan 1997 15:28:37 +0200 (IST) Eli Zaretskii
<eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> writes:
>
>On Fri, 10 Jan 1997, Benjamin D Chambers wrote:
>
>> I don't know specifically about cat, but I believe if it was
>compiled
>> with djgpp you cannot use the standard DOS redirection/piping.
>
>Why would you think a thing like that? DJGPP does nothing at all to
>change the standard DOS redirection/pipes mechanism. Pipes and
>redirection are a feature of the shell (COMMAND.COM or any other shell
>
>that you might use), and DJGPP has nothing to do with it. DJGPP
>programs
>certainly *can* use these features, exactly as any other DOS program
>does. `redir' is only required to redirect stderr (because
>COMMAND.COM
>cannot do that).
>
I see now! When I found that > didn't work catching errors from
programs, I assumed that was how all output from djgpp programs acted.
Thanx for the clarification :)
...Chambers
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