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Dave Korn writes:

>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> 
>> Although, hmm, on rereading it isn't clear that the output shows up on
>> the screen.  It sounds like the DOS program just might not differentiate
>> between stdout and stderr.

Yes the output (both stderr and stdout) appear on screen

>  I checked: you can't redirect its error output at all, even in a genuine
>cmd.exe shell with cygwin having nothing to do with it.  It must indeed be
>using the console directly.  <checks imports>  Curiouser and curiouser...
it
>links msvcrt.dll and imports printf and wprintf, but then it goes and
actually
>does everything the hard way with lowlevel console i/o in unicode.  How
peculiar.

Strange. What is meant then by this sentence included in the help:
       "SubInAcl error messages are sent to the Standard error."


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