Re: LYNX-DEV 4DOS

[ELCHONON EDELSON]

On Wed, 7 May 1997, Foteos Macrides wrote:

> Wayne Buttles <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> > On Wed, 7 May 1997, Foteos Macrides wrote:
> >
> >> > Does anyone use real DOS
> >> > unless they simply haven't yet been enlightened about 4dos?
> >
> >Maybe this is what you are looking for...  I DON'T use 4dos all the time.
> >I find that I don't like a couple of the things that it does and I am not
> >interested in finding out if/how the behavior can be changed.  I DO use it
> >whenever I need stderr piped to a file which is seldom.  
> 
>       Well, actually, I don't know how real DOS compares with 4dos
> currently, 'cuz I stopped using real DOS years ago when I discovered
> 4dos.  But if the things you don't like about it don't affect your
> ports, could you field the other followup question by explaining
> how/where to get it, and swap it in when you want to pipe stderr to
> a file, then swap it back out to resume using real DOS?  Is that
> something which could be made simple for Lynx users without lots of
> computer expertise (or should essentially every Lynx file be modified
> so that output to a file is a built in option, without need for
> piping)?
> 
>                               Fote

how hard would it be to allow a command-line option to
freopen() stderr onto a specified output file? After
appropriate access checks, of course.

--
Elchonon Edelson
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