In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
   John-Mark Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 17 May 2008, Dave Symes wrote:

> > Netsurf doesn't have an stderr file anywhere in its application dir,
> > and particularly not in !Run, so how is it important in a !Run file?

> NetSurf's !Run file does the following:

>    Run <NetSurf$Dir>.!RunImage -v %*0 2><Wimp$ScrapDir>.WWW.NetSurf.Log

> which runs the binary

>    <NetSurf$Dir>.!RunImage

> passing it the parameters

>    -v %*0

>    (the latter corresponds to all the parameters passed to !Run)

> and redirecting the error stream to

>    <Wimp$ScrapDir>.WWW.NetSurf.Log

> Hence the NetSurf log file appearing at

> > ...!Boot.Resources.!Scrap.ScrapDirs.IDdisabled.WWW.NetSurf.Log

> as Wimp$ScrapDir evaluates to ...IDdisabled on your system.

> John.

Thanks... That's understandable. 
Chris was using the term "stderr". Eg. "*Count DebugLog:stderr.NetSurf" 
which is the source of my confusion, as I could/can find no occurrence of
either a Debuglog or stderr associated with Netsurf.

Cheers
Dave S

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