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Re: which stream is prompt written to? [message #6963]

Mon, 09 September 1996 00:00

Christian Soeller
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Registered: August 1996

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chs11@ciao.cc.columbia.edu (Carl H Sayres) writes:

>
> Your first example works (idl 2>stderr.out). But if you put a set of
> commands in a file and do this:
> idl < idl.in > idl.out 2> idl.err
> you don't get any prompts! Can anyone explain????
My guess is that idl checks if the input stream is associated with a
terminal and won't generate prompt messages otherwise.

Maybe you would be better of using callable IDL (see IDL advanced
development guide) for your particular way of issuing IDL commands under
external program control ?

Regards,

Christian

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St. Georges Hospital Medical School Dept. of Pharmacology
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