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From: "Ed Federmeyer" <fedeedw@charlie.cns.iit.edu>
Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.beginners
Subject: Re: How can I output gcc error list to a file?
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 21:27:28 -0500
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Steve Tolin wrote in message <70osit$cv311@scea>...
>There is a way to do this very easily....   but I haven't done it in so
long
>that I can't remember the syntax..
>
>I'll check some of my earlier notes amnd hopfully have an answer soon...
>
>Anyone else???
>
>
>Steve Davison wrote in message <70mndd$7i7@chuka.playstation.co.uk>...
>>Now this may seem pretty obvious to most people but when I compile source
>>code at the dos prompt how do I redirect the output to a file or a
printer.
>>I know this can be done as I remember it from my COBAL days, unfortunately
>>my COBAL days were probably the last time I used dos.(about 7 years ago)
>>

Under Unix (traditional shells anyway) and Windows NT you use:
gcc main.c > errors.log 2>&1
The "2>&1" means, make file descriptor 2 (stderr) go to the same place
as file descriptor 1 (stdout).  This won't work for Windows 95 or 98.

There is a program from the DJGPP port of GNU C to the PC called
"redir", which you can use to redirect the output of stderr in all kinds
of useful ways.  You might try a web search for DJGPP, and grab the
"binutils" archive.  (Might as well grab the whole thing though, it's an
awesome "free" compiler and stuff.)

EdF