From: Dave Pearson <davep AT hagbard DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Unfortunate output unit in "ls.exe"
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 14:35:29 GMT
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On Fri, 06 Feb 1998 12:20:26 +0200, Daniel Taupin <taupin AT lps DOT u-psud DOT fr> wrote:

> ls.exe outputs NOT into stdout, but in stderr!  Thus one cannot pipe its
> output to a file.
> 
> Any comments?

I'd check that you are really using the DJGPP ported GNU ls. It outputs to
stdout just fine:

C:\x>touch one
C:\x>touch two
C:\x>ls > three
C:\x>cat three
one
three
two
C:\x>_

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