Re: More diagnostics for the W32 build

[Lennart Borgman]

David Abrahams wrote:

> > > Redirecting stderr works on COMMAND.COM as far as I recall.
> > >      
> > No, it doesn't.  "foo 2>bar" is interpreted as `foo' called with an
> > argument `2' and its stdout redirected to `bar'.  If you do that with
> > GCC, it complains about a non-existing file `2'.
> >
> >    
> >
> > > I'm not sure about 2>&1 though.
> > >      
> > Definitely doesn't work, 
> >    
>
> That's strange; I use it all the time on Windows XP.  Seems to work
> just fine (?)
Are you sure you mean command.com, not cmd.exe?