From: rpolzer AT web DOT de (Rudolf Polzer)
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> schrieb Folgendes:
> 
> On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Alexei A. Frounze wrote:
> 
> > ever tried to do something like this:
> >   c:\>dir |more
> > ?
> > try to add " |more" and see what happens.
> > or even better...
> > add " >test.txt" -- this will write the output to a text file instead of the
> > screen.
> 
> This will not work with programs which print error messages to stderr 
> instead of stdout.  COMMAND.COM doesn't know how to redirect stderr.

Why is 2>&1 not implemented in command.com? cmd.exe of WinNT can do
it. Or why doesnt gcc print error messages to STDOUT on WinDOZe when a
switch like -stdout is passed? Since gcc does not stop at the first error
message, you cannot find the error without the pause key or an IDE!

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