From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: shell scripts in DJGPP
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 09:01:21 +0200
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On 8 Feb 2000, Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:

> > However, there's a caveat: you cannot redirect standard streams of a
> > batch file, so if you go this way, you lose the ability to redirect
> > the script's I/O, which might be important for some scripts.
> 
> If you want, there's a remedy for that, as well: *Compile* the batch
> files to .com files, using PC Magazines 'Bat2exec'.

It strikes me that it would be much simpler to use `redir', like this:

	   redir script
or
	   redir -o file script

(`redir', being a DJGPP program, will know how to invoke a shell
script.)

> Remarkably enough, those compiled batch files do support
> redirection, unlike the originals.

That's not surprising: the problems with redirection from a batch file
are a misfeature of COMMAND.COM, caused by the fact that it doesn't
spawn another copy of itself to run the batch.  Compiled batch files,
OTOH, are normal .com programs, so redirection works as usual.