Date: 12 Oct 92 12:40:20 GMT+1200
From: chris moseley -  MOZ <MOSELECW AT elec DOT canterbury DOT ac DOT nz>
Subject: redirecting stderr/ stdout
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

I have been trying to redirect stderr to a file, but all that happens
is the error messages vanish completely. This is irritating as I
am getting lots of messages compiling code from a `C' code generator,
but lose most of them. The rest of the environment works fine, except
for this one mess.

The environment looks like:

COMSPEC=C:\DRDOS\COMMAND.COM
OS=DRDOS
VER=6.0
GAI=C:\DRIVERS\VIDEO
TIGA=-mC:\DRIVERS\VIDEO -lC:\DRIVERS\VIDEO -i0x61
IGHOME=c:\ustation
IGPROD=SGF0031
IGSERVER=ELECCAE-US-KEYSERVER
CONFIG.TEL=c:\ncsa\config.tel
PROMPT=$d   $t$_$p$g
PATH=Q:.;O:.;F:.;G:.;C:\WINDOWS;I:.;Z:.;T:.;Y:.;W:.;X:.;C:\TC\BIN;
COMPILER_PATH=v:/djgpp/bin
C_INCLUDE_PATH=v:/djgpp/include;p:\h
CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH=v:/djgpp/cplusinc;v:/djgpp/include
OBJC_INCLUDE_PATH=v:/djgpp/include
OBJCPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH=v:/djgpp/include
LIBRARY_PATH=v:/djgpp/lib
TMPDIR=c:/temp
TEMP=c:/temp
GO32TMP=c:/temp
GO32=ansi 2r1
GCCLIB=v:/djgpp/lib

So as you can see the system is a mess. The hardware is a DECpc 433
workstation, 8MB RAM, 33MHz 486, TIGA based graphics card (in 80x50
text mode). The problem also occurs on a 20MHz 386 4MB RAM, so I
suspect it is not hardware based. And the 386 uses `eansi.sys' not
`ansi.sys' and only does 80x25 text mode, but still the redirection
fails.


thanks
moz