Re: [LINUX5250] scs2ascii is broken?

[James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, James Rich wrote:

> On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Scott Klement wrote:
>
> > To be honest with you, James, I don't really understand the whole "passed
> > outfile" approach.   Not that it hurts anything, but what can you achieve
> > this way that you couldn't also achieve by simply by redirecting stdout to
> > a file?
>
> so that the user can set outfile to whatever they may want (through some
> mechanism).  But I agree that I can't think of anything that might want to
> be done that couldn't be done with redirection.

I just thought of something about this related to the win32 port.  Not
having experience with programming for win32, I wonder if windows supports
output redirection?  AFAIK it doesn't, so writing to an outfile could make
the port somewhat simpler.  I haven't finished reading the stuff in win32/
so I'm not sure how it is being handled now.  Comments?

James Rich
james@eaerich.com