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X-Original-Date: 15 Dec 1995 05:47:10 GMT

lussier@aviator.cis.ufl.edu (Kyle Lussier) writes:

>How do I get re-route, or overload the standard streams to send output
>to somewhere else?  Specifically I want all messages to stderr to be
>sent to a file and all messages to stdout to be sent to a file.
>
Here's one way of doing it. I removed the various consistency checks you
may want to do (existence of the file, etc, etc):


#include <iostream.h>

ofstream     cout_file;

void  redirectOutput(String fname)
{

   cout_file.open(fname);
   cout = cout_file;
}


Hope this helps.

Diego.


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