From: please hold Newsgroups: microsoft.public.webdesign.html,comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: HTML Tidy, WindowsME, and DJGPP Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 07:52:45 GMT Organization: Deja.com - Before you buy. Lines: 97 Message-ID: <8qf347$464$1@nnrp1.deja.com> References: <8qe4cj$1f3$1 AT nnrp1 DOT deja DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.23.31.43 X-Article-Creation-Date: Fri Sep 22 07:52:45 2000 GMT X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/3.01Gold (Macintosh; I; 68K) X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x55.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 63.23.31.43 X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDnot_quite To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com In article , Damian Yerrick wrote: > On Thu, 21 Sep 2000 23:08:19 GMT, please hold > wrote: > > > Did WindowsME break HTML Tidy > > > > [http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy.exe] > > > > and/or DJGPP? > > Quite likely. They're DOS programs, and Windows ME isn't DOS; it's > Windows. > > > For a long time, I have been using the DGPP bash shell to segregate > >HTML Tidy's stderr and stdout output by invoking tidy.exe from a command > >line of the form > > > > % tidy < input.html > output.html > errs.1 > > > > Since I installed Windows ME, however, this no longer works. > > > > What I get is what I would expect to get if I had used the command > >line > > > > % tidy < input.html > output.html 2>&1 > > > >i.e., stderr is merged with stdout. > > > > Anyone else seen this? > > Have you played with redir.exe from DJGPP? redir.exe can redirect > stderr for DJGPP programs (and maybe even for other DOS programs; I > haven't checked). > > -- No, I hadn't, but I ran a test: Input file `junk.html' ---------------------- whatever Command line ------------ $ redir -o barf.html -e errs.1 tidy junk.html Output file `barf.html' ------------------------ quote ------------------------------ Tidy (vers 4th August 2000) Parsing "junk.html" line 1 column 1 - Warning: inserting missing 'title' element line 2 column 1 - Warning: missing line 2 column 1 - Warning: trimming empty line 2 column 1 - Warning: missing junk.html: Document content looks like HTML 4.01 Transitional 4 warnings/errors were found! whatever HTML & CSS specifications are available from http://www.w3.org/ To learn more about Tidy see http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/ Please send bug reports to Dave Raggett care of Lobby your company to join W3C, see http://www.w3.org/Consortium ------------------------- unquote ---------------------------------- Output file `errs.1'? --------------------- file `errs.1' is empty! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ stderr is merged with stdout! Looks like DJGPP may have to rebuild everything under Windows ME to clear up this mess. -- Access to the real command line is like all freedoms: once you let the software police take it away, you'll never see it again.[See also http://knights.rave.org/] Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.