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From: madd@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP (Jim "Jack" Frost)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Re-directing the output of commands in a BAT file
Message-ID: <971@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 19-May-87 12:43:37 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 19 12:43:37 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 20-May-87 05:33:17 EDT
References: <1837@im4u.UUCP> <632@zaphod.UUCP>
Reply-To: madd@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP (Jim "Jack" Frost)
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In article <632@zaphod.UUCP> dick@plx.UUCP (Dick Flanagan) writes:
>In article <1837@im4u.UUCP> jai@im4u.UUCP (Jai Srinivasan) writes:
>>[...] nothing from the DOS command line can help re-direct standard error.
>
>Polytron (the folks who bring you POLY-this-and-that) supply a program
>with their PVCS and PolyMake products called RSE.  The syntax for RSE
>is:  RSE <program name and parameters>.  This will redirect standard
>error to standard out for the execution of <program name and parameters>.
>(RSE stands for Redirect Standard Error).  An example they give of its
>use is:  RSE MAKE -I > RESULTS.  This will run MAKE with errors being
>ignored and all error and normal messages being redirected to the file
>called RESULTS.  I've tried it and the puppy works!

This would be a real quick program to make; merely put the stdout file
handle into the stderr file descriptor and invoke the program
specified on the command line.  I'd show you some code, but really I
haven't used MS-DOS file handles for anything and I'd probably screw
it up.  Someone want to do a quick-and-dirty RSE for the PD?

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