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Date: | Tue, 8 Jul 1997 19:04:36 -0400 (EDT) |
Message-Id: | <199707082304.TAA02279@delorie.com> |
From: | DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> |
To: | eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il |
CC: | djgpp AT delorie DOT com |
In-reply-to: | <Pine.SUN.3.91.970708165630.13991G-100000@is> (message from Eli |
Zaretskii on Tue, 8 Jul 1997 17:03:04 +0300 (IDT)) | |
Subject: | Re: interesting redir behavior |
> > So why (apart from historical reasons) doesn't REDIR use dup2? > > DJ should answer that. But AFAIK, the way `redir' works is quite common > practice; I've seen many programs doing that, and OpenDOS will break all > of them. For example, Less is one of them. No reason. I picked one way, and it worked well enough.
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