On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Mike Carpenter wrote:
>/* This is the section that i dont understand what does he mean by in the
>batch file run the mud wit redirected.... Im sure this really shows my
>newbieness but please humor me */
>ie. circle.exe >> log.txt
DOS can redirect stdout (printf) but not stderr (fprintf(stderr, ...)) so
you're converting the fprintf's to printf's that DOS can then send to a
file. If you just ran 'circle.exe' you'd get the logs on your screen as
usual. But if you run "circle.exe > log.txt" you would send to a file.
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