Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 15:21:18 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "I.G.Badcoe" <biigb AT zeus DOT bris DOT ac DOT uk>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: odd redir behaviour ?
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On Thu, 23 May 1996, I.G.Badcoe wrote:

> 	I was messing about with redir last night and I can't make it perform
> as I expected.
>
> redir -eo -o x prog
> 
> lead to stdout being lost
> 
> and
> 
> redir -oe -e x prog had the same effect.

The docs of `redir' (in the info/utils.inf file) clearly state that 
`redir' processes the command-line arguments in the order they are 
given.  So you must *first* tell it to redirect stdout to x and *then* to 
put stderr to where stdout goes.  The docs even give an example of how it 
should be done:

	redir -o x -eo prog
or
	redir -e x -oe prog