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Article #40516Re: TOS io redirection bugs
From: Julian Reschke
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1990 08:02
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1990 08:02
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In article <1990Jan22.173721.12285@stag.UUCP> Dale Schumacher writes: > On a related point, there has been some movement to correct a long-standing > inconvenience in TOS regarding stderr. Handle 2 is connected to the AUX > port by default, but I support it's use as a redirectable stderr. To > force this to work properly, C start-up code should check to see if handle > 2 is a tty. If is IS, then Fforce() it to -1 to attach it to the console. > This is harmless if it already IS attached to the console, and makes sure > you don't confuse your serial i/o device if it's still attached to AUX. > If handle 2 IS NOT a tty, leave it alone, since that should indicated that > someone has redirected it. But this will fail if you try to redirect handle 2 to PRN:! Correct me if I'm wrong... +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Julian F. Reschke, Hensenstr. 142, D-4400 Muenster, Tel.: 0251/861241 eMail: ONM07@DMSWWU1A.BITNET
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!DMSWWU1A.BITNET!ONM07 From: ONM07@DMSWWU1A.BITNET (Julian Reschke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: TOS io redirection bugs Message-ID: <9001301152.AA03348@freya.dmswwu-ether> Date: 6 Feb 90 08:02:50 GMT Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 18 X-Unparsable-Date: Tue, 30 Jan 90 12:52:46 MEZ