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From: mcastle@mcs213f.cs.umr.edu (Mike Castle (Nexus))
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Subject: redirection w/ Turbo
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Date: 10 Jan 91 00:51:03 GMT
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Is there anyway (using Turbo Pascal 5.5) to sense if standard output is
being re-directed?  I want to use the CRT unit to use direct screen writes, 
but I would also like to include support for redirection without use of a
command line switch.  

I tried looking at the 'entire' command line as show in Timo's faqpas.txt, 
but dos strips away everything after the   >  .  Is there a flag somewhere
I could check?  Maybe looking for some kind of flakely file in the current 
directory?  :->

I suppose pointers to books would be ok, but I can barely afford $3.00 for
a cheap novel, much less a DOS handbook of somesort.  :-< 

Anyways, tanx.
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