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From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: redirecting std[in,out,err] vs. the shell
Keywords: redirection, command.com
Message-ID: <20112@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 28 Apr 89 03:06:26 GMT
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Reply-To: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
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randyn@microsoft.UUCP (Randy Nevin) <5608@microsoft.UUCP> :
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-fact that the shell (sh or csh on unix, command.com on dos) does not do this
-for you does not prohibit you from doing it yourself. below is the code to a

Note, though, that sh, csh, tcsh (and any other shell, I expect) on unix
*do* support redirection.  COMMAND.COM does not support redirection of
stderr, although it does mimic the unix notion of redirection and piping
of stdin and stout.

Some (not all) of the scorn that MSDOS generates is caused by this
incomplete and inept mimicking of unix's behavior.  Thanks to Randy
for showing a workaround.