in reply to perl program status

Logfiles! Open a designated file and write a line containing the time and date, and whatever accurately describes what is being processed at the time.

I program on *nix systems 99% of the time - I use the STDERR handle for this kind of thing. I am sure someone more enlightened with Win32 can explain more about how STDERR works with a Win32 system . . .

Jeff 

R-R-R--R-R-R--R-R-R--R-R-R--R-R-R--
L-L--L-L--L-L--L-L--L-L--L-L--L-L--

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Re: (jeffa) Re: perl program status
by novitiate (Scribe) on Apr 04, 2001 at 22:44 UTC
    i believe that on Win32 STDERR is the same as STDOUT. i could be wrong. humbly. nov.
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      s/could be/am/;

      At least on Windows NT STDOUT and STDERR are quite separate, and you can redirect them pretty much as you would expect.

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