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From: "Andrew Maguire (SWW)" <Andrew DOT Maguire AT Smallworld DOT co DOT uk>
To: "'Kai DOT Grossjohann AT cs DOT uni-dortmund DOT de'"
	 <Kai DOT Grossjohann AT cs DOT uni-dortmund DOT de>,
        mah AT everybody DOT org, ntemacs-users AT cs DOT washington DOT edu
Cc: Keith Amidon <camalot AT picnicpark DOT org>,
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        cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: tramp on NT emacs
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 22:03:08 +0100
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> /----
> | revision 1.312
> | date: 2000/05/12 21:04:20;  author: grossjoh;  state: Exp;  
> lines: +19 -4
> | Don't use "set +o history 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null".  AIX chokes on
> | redirecting stderr here?!
> \----
> 
> Isn't that nice?  So.  Can we be sure that `ls' is never a shell
> builtin, and that doing "2>/dev/null" on those commands never fails?
> I think we cannot be sure.  (And also, the exit status of `cd' is
> sometimes queried, and that's always a shell builtin.)
> 
> Does anybody have a suggestion?
I have absolutely no idea what you are trying to solve ;-)
but you might like to try:

set +o history 1>/dev/null 2>&1

You may need to do it this way around:

set +o history 2>&1 1>/dev/null

Andrew

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