Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 11:18:43 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Gavin Sinclair <s2174215 AT cse DOT unsw DOT EDU DOT AU>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: gcc output redirection
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On Tue, 23 Dec 1997, Gavin Sinclair wrote:

>    freopen("ERRORS.LST", "w", stderr);
> 
> Be warned, though, that when you do this (you can do it with stdout as
> well), you can't get stderr back!

Why not?  I think the following will restore stderr to its original
settings:

    freopen ("CON", "w", stderr);
    setvbuf (stderr, 0, _IONBF, 0);