Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 15:28:37 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Benjamin D Chambers <chambersb AT juno DOT com>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Off behaviour with 'cat -b'
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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).