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  1. Received: from owl.CS.Arizona.EDU by cheltenham.CS.Arizona.EDU; Fri, 4 Jun 1993 15:12:24 MST
  2. Received: by owl.cs.arizona.edu; Fri, 4 Jun 1993 15:12:23 MST
  3. Date: 2 Jun 93 22:51:14 GMT
  4. From: agate!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!sdd.hp.com!portal!cup.portal.com!Eric-Amick@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU  (Richard E Amick)
  5. Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  6. Subject: Re: redirecting Icon output
  7. Message-Id: <82584@cup.portal.com>
  8. References: <pjsmith.739033749@pv1414.vincent.iastate.edu>
  9. Sender: icon-group-request@cs.arizona.edu
  10. To: icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
  11. Status: R
  12. Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
  13.  
  14. >According to the Icon documentation, the -e option redirects output from
  15. >icont to the specified file.  However, it doesn't seem to work.  I have tried
  16. >the standard Unix redirection and pipe commands with no success.  I am running
  17. >Icon v8.7 on a Sun workstation with SunOS 4.1.1.  Any help would be greatly
  18. >appreciated.
  19.  
  20. For what it's worth, -e doesn't do anything in version 8.10, either, but
  21. it's supposed to redirect just standard error, not standard output.  To
  22. redirect standard error, use "2> filename" with the Bourne or Korn
  23. shells, and ">& filename" with the C shell.
  24.