Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!rochester!rutgers!att!ulysses!andante!alice!andrew From: andrew@alice.UUCP (Andrew Hume) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: SURVEY RESULTS: Should fd 3 be /dev/tty? Summary: cut the chatter Message-ID: <9320@alice.UUCP> Date: 7 May 89 03:10:11 GMT References: <8123@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <172@sopwith.UUCP> Distribution: usa Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ Lines: 8 give me a break. can't find the error messages in stderr because of all the other stuff? oh dear. why not put all the crap on some other file descriptor and let stderr be what it should be? that's why we have stdout and stderr; so we don't have to do this horseshit on stdout. luckily the solution for stdout works for stderr; don't multiplex.