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In article <4955.25d2cc93@uwovax.uwo.ca> Eric Smith writes:
> How about this suggestion: if all programmers who use the Atari extended
> argument passing scheme (ARGV=, etc.) also agree that handle 2 should be
> stderr, then startup code could do:
>   if (*argv[0] == 0 && isatty(2)) Fforce(2, -1).
> (This assumes that argv[0] is an empty string if it isn't available, as
> specified by the ANSI standard). This way, ARGV compatible shells can
> redirect stderr to anything at all; non-ARGV compatible shells can redirect
> stderr to a file; and programs still correctly re-direct handle 2 when
> run from the desktop.
Sounds EASY, LOGICAL, PORTABLE etc. If now someone@atari would say:
"Do it this way" this would make a fine standard. At least it's better
than all other proposals.

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