Re: Sensing STDOUT redirection in C

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From: Walter Bright
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1991 17:02

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In article <collinsa.671721083@p4.cs.man.ac.uk> collinsa@p4.cs.man.ac.uk (Adrian Collins) writes:
/Does anybody know how to sense whether output redirection has been used
/on the command line?

	if (!isatty(fileno(stdin)))
		/* input has been redirected to a block device */

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From: bright@nazgul.UUCP (Walter Bright)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Sensing STDOUT redirection in C
Keywords: STDOUT, Redirection, MSDOS
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Date: 26 Apr 91 17:02:42 GMT
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