Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 11:55:56 +0300 (EET DST)
From: Esa A E Peuha <peuha AT cc DOT helsinki DOT fi>
Reply-To: Esa DOT Peuha AT Helsinki DOT FI
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: interesting redir behavior
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On Tue, 8 Jul 1997, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> IMHO, this should be reported to Caldera.  It seems that it doesn't 
> behave like DOS when allocating file handles.  `redir' relies on the 
> fact that when you close handle x, the next open reuses that handle.
> If this is false in OpenDOS, the redirected file will remain empty.

Shouldn't redir use DOS function 0x46 (Force duplicate file handle) and
not rely on undocumented behavior.

Esa Peuha
student of mathematics at the University of Helsinki
http://www.helsinki.fi/~peuha/