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In article <BAMMI.90Feb6182843@curie.ces.CWRU.Edu>, bammi@curie.ces.CWRU.Edu (Jwahar R. Bammi) writes:
> In article <9001301152.AA03348@freya.dmswwu-ether> ONM07@DMSWWU1A.BITNET (Julian Reschke) writes:
> dale:
>    > 2 is a tty.  If is IS, then Fforce() it to -1 to attach it to the console.
> Julian:
>    But this will fail if you try to redirect handle 2 to PRN:! Correct me if
>    I'm wrong...
> 
> thats correct, but dales suggestion is still fine. its isatty() that
> needs to be fixed up, so that it does'nt think that PRN: isatty().

Here are my two cents:
What if the user wants to redirect handle 2 stderr to the serial port (AUX:)?
Since this is the default assignment for this handle it will be difficult to
manage this case too.
I had two applications for this. Some time ago i wanted to debug a full screen
editor (not emacs :- ) and have sent the debug output to a PC clone. I needed
this output while i was testing the program, not later. Therefore i could not
use a file. The second application needs to redirect all standard handles
(stdin, stdout, stderr). It's a program to run eg. games in a mailbox (for
example nethack). Then stderr IS a terminal, but not the console. And the
mailbox user will not like to play on the console screen (unless he/she is
clear-sighted :-) or sitting before the console).

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