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From: nortond@well.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: stupid COMMAND.COM  (WAS:  DOS enviroment size)
Message-ID: <2769@well.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 13-Mar-87 21:34:34 EST
Article-I.D.: well.2769
Posted: Fri Mar 13 21:34:34 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 14-Mar-87 14:43:56 EST
References: <2091@ncoast.UUCP> <409500003@prism> <2986@iuvax.UUCP> <134@phoenix.PRINCETON.EDU>
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Keywords: DOS substitutions
Summary: Redirection is by COMMAND.COM on LATER versions of DOS only

In article <134@phoenix.PRINCETON.EDU>, rjchen@phoenix.PRINCETON.EDU (Raymond Juimong Chen) writes:
> 
> I don't know why Aztec C does all that redirection handling, but MIX C
> (don't laugh) also does the same thing in its startup routine. 

Only the later version of DOS supported Standard I/O redirection (I forget
when they started doing it).  The startup code does the redirection only if
DOS did not do the redirection for the program.  Since, as you mentioned,
DOS strips the ">" and "<", the startup code doesn't do anything anyway
on the later versions of DOS.

-- 
Daniel A. Norton    ...!lll-lcc!{lll-crg,ptsfa}!well!nortond