--- Bob Mangold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Does anybody know why he shouldn't do the following?
> > 
> > *STDERR = *STDOUT;
> > 
> 
> This is what I orignally tried, and is didn't really work. I think my
> problem lies in the fact that I am hoping to make the change in a
> module that I am 'use'ing. So I tried all of the suggestions, but it
> seemed that no matter how I did it, the output always went to STDERR.
> So I guess somewhere in the module it's checking to make sure STDERR
> really is STDERR.

Are you sure it's STDERR? Some write directly to ther terminal
screen...
 
> In any case I made a work around by just spitting the STDERR output
> to a file and checking for it there. (which in itself is weird
because
> i can push STDERR to a file, but not to STDOUT.)

Hrmm.... It could be checking to see whether it's a terminal, but that
seems like a lot of trouble. I've done it, but only when the messages
only mattered when someone was sitting there watching it.....

What is this module?

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