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From: toma@sail.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: redirecting stderr: can it be done?
Keywords: stderr, redirect
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Date: 9 May 91 14:48:11 GMT
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In article <3747@intvax.UUCP> drstrip@intvax.UUCP (David R. Strip) writes:
>Is there anyway to capture output on stderr from
>an application? The unix-ism of >& does not
>work on ms-dos. 

If you run the shareware command.com replacement, 4DOS, you can redirect
stderr using >&.

>Barring an actual redirect
>operator, can someone point me to a pd program
>to capture all screen output from an app. For
>what its worth, the app is compiled in Turbo-C
>if that makes a difference. 

If the Turbo-C app is writing to the display directly (using the conio.h
package) then you are out of luck, but as long as it is using stderr
4DOS will do the job.



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