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In article <DI3BnA.JF5@news.zippo.com>,  from Wed, 15 Nov 1995 15:16:38 GMT 
Fred Frot at Fred.Dullemond@Austria.ATTGIS.COM says...
>
>
>Hello,
>
>At the moment I am developing some kind of tool to call (spawn/exec)
>other commands (using swap of memory) in MS-DOS.
>
>In order not to disturb the screen by messages from the called program
>I use redirection of stdout.
>
>        e.g. 'dir > \it.txt'
>
>I encountered a problem when this called program writes something to
>stderr. These messages are not redirected to the file, but corrupt the
>screen display and confuse the ignorant user.
>
>So I want to do something like under UNIX command-line :
>
>        ls > /dev/null    2>&1
>
>or redirecting the stderr in the calling program to stdout (which I
>think would be the best), but I don't know how to do this.
>

	Seems you want to redirect *all* output from the called command ?

	Instead of calling the command directly, enclose the command
	in a batch file:

		@echo off
		ctty nul
		command-to-call
		ctty con

	and then call COMMAND.COM /C d:\path\that_batch.bat



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