Re: /dev/stderr on cygwin

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

"Chris Jackson" <address@hidden> writes:

> > Why do you need 1.7.x?
> 
> Just for fun!

Ok, good.  We'll need to sort this out before 1.8 anyway.

> >>> sys.stderr.write('foo')
> foo>>> os.system ('echo foo 1>/dev/stderr')
> cannot create /dev/stderr: directory nonexistent

Ok, thanks.  It looks like there's a hack in bash, very odd.  I've had
a quick look in the cygwin archives, but didn't find anything yet.

> It looks like ly2dvi is failing on this bit:

>  # Redirect to stderr
>  cmd += ' 1>/dev/stderr'

Thanks.  Maybe we should ask the cygwin list before introducing a
kludge in ly2dvi.

Jan.

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