Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 12:39:26 -0800 (PST)
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>,
        Gavin Sinclair <s2174215 AT cse DOT unsw DOT EDU DOT AU>
From: Nate Eldredge <eldredge AT ap DOT net>
Subject: Re: gcc output redirection
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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At 11:18  12/23/1997 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>On Tue, 23 Dec 1997, Gavin Sinclair wrote:
>
>>    freopen("ERRORS.LST", "w", stderr);
>> 
>> Be warned, though, that when you do this (you can do it with stdout as
>> well), you can't get stderr back!
>
>Why not?  I think the following will restore stderr to its original
>settings:
>
>    freopen ("CON", "w", stderr);
>    setvbuf (stderr, 0, _IONBF, 0);
Well, not strictly. It will send it to the screen, and disregard if somebody
might have redirected stderr.

Nate Eldredge
eldredge AT ap DOT net