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From: emb978@leah.Albany.Edu (Eric M. Boehm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MS-DOS puzzle #1
Summary: You can't designate file descriptors with redirection in MS-DOS
Message-ID: <1780@leah.Albany.Edu>
Date: 23 Apr 89 02:16:08 GMT
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It doesn't make any sense to me. It just happens that some unix shells
provide a consruction like ">&2" to redirect stderr. (Note that this is
a problem in csh). Command.com just doesn't happen to provide such a
construction. I can't see any reason why a substitute shell (a previous
response to this question mentioned 2 such shells) or a program couldn't
redirect stderr by using appropriate file descriptors (handles).

Eric M. Boehm
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