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
Precedence: bulk


> > 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.