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From: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.d
Subject: Re: Unofficial patch to shar3.49
Message-ID: <93608889@bfmny0.BFM.COM>
Date: 10 Jan 91 06:53:53 GMT
References: <3540001@hpcc01.HP.COM>
Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
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In article <3540001@hpcc01.HP.COM> okamoto@hpcc01.HP.COM (Jeff Okamoto) writes:
>I like the features that shar3.49 offers, but there is one small thing
>that I didn't like: shar prints out some status messages to stderr
>while building the sharchve.  Since I have an alias which effectively
>does shar * >& shar.out you can see how that can cause problems.

If Jeff means he's doing

	shar * >shar.out &

then why not just change it to 
	
	shar * >shar.out 2>shar.err &

hmmm?