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From: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Which filehandle for stderr?
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Date: 25 Oct 89 11:07:38 GMT
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Which filehandle should be used for stderr? I have seen compilers that use
2 and others that use -1.

If you use 2: you can redirect stderr, but it is not official TOS usage (2
is supposed to be stdaux). So you need a sheel that sets up 2 to default to
the console. On the other hand it is Unix compatible.

If you use -1: it is TOS standard, compatible with the desktop, but you
can't redirect it to a file.

So either way you seem to lose.

What are your feelings about this?
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