[PD] pd 0.38 printing to shell

IOhannes m zmoelnig zmoelnig at iem.at
Fri Jul 15 19:54:34 CEST 2005


Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> 
> I think a flag is a muuuuch cleaner way to do this.  What's wrong with 
> -stderr?

nothing but the fact that this does not work on windows.

either an application is a true windows application, then stderr will go
into nirvana; or the application is a "DOS"-application, then it will
have this annoying DOS-box that confuses most people.
you cannot have an application that decides at runtime to which group it
belongs.
(although i am fully with you, that it would be far more elegant)

my source of information has always been
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/02/CQA/
i guess, they do know their OS.

mfg.asdr.
IOhannes

outing myself as mr. know-it-all, i have written a mail exactly about
this issue at the end of february this year. didn't seem to bother
anyone then.




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