Re: Can the STDERR from a process be read?

Scott Raney ((no email))
Mon, 8 May 1995 09:31:29 -0600 (MDT)

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> When I do a "read from process CMDLINE until return", I get the data
> that has been written to STDOUT from the program given in CMDLINE. Is
> there any way to read the data that was written to STDERR? I want
> to keep the two streams distinct; no fair merging them.

In 1.4, the engine merges the two streams. Perhaps it should do
something different? We'd have to add some syntax to do this,
however. How about something like:
read from stderr of process CMDLINE until return

Opinions?
Scott

> -sp-

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