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From: roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: MS-PERL and stdout
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Date: 6 Jan 91 10:47:08 GMT
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rm55+@andrew.cmu.edu (Rudolph T. Maceyko) writes:

> What's the best way to make an msperl (pl 41) script behave as a
> normal unix one does with regards to pipes and such?
> 
> C:\> SCRIPT > LPT1
> 
> It would be nice to be able to do such redirects, but both msperls
> (pl18 and 41) seem to write directly to CON.  I'm no DOS guru, but
> this is a little disconcerting.

And a little confusing! I have been using Perl on my DOS box since PL18
came available, and I never experienced this difficulty. I regularly
redirect the output of Perl scripts (now with PL41) to files or pipes.
(piping to list.com is a favorite)

> BTW, open(STDOUT, ">-") kills the script, even if STDOUT is closed first.

I haven't tried that, yet... p'raps I'll experiment a bit tonight.
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