From: Jason Green Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Reading Make in a DOS box Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 00:28:26 +0100 Organization: Customer of Planet Online Lines: 14 Message-ID: <48enes8svelp2mo2fn58jga0iccta4fau4@4ax.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: modem-8.oxygen.dialup.pol.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: newsg2.svr.pol.co.uk 954978000 13749 62.136.7.8 (5 Apr 2000 23:40:00 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: 5 Apr 2000 23:40:00 GMT X-Complaints-To: abuse AT theplanet DOT net X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.7/32.534 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com nobody AT nowhere wrote: > Simple thing, but how do you read the output of the compiler when running make > in a Win95 DOS box? i tried piping it to a file, like "make > out.txt" or > "make | type out.txt" and even "make | more", but nothing works. You are on the right lines, but the problem is that error messages get printed to stderr (not stdout) and DOS will only let you redirect stdout. Unlike a Unix shell, such as BASH, which would let you redirect either or both. You can do what you want in DOS using the redir utility: redir -eo -o out.txt make