"Dave R." <dwragle at drbsystems dot com> wrote in message
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> "GT" <g.thibaudeau@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> > Hello,
> > I have finally managed to get the backbone of a logging system to
> > work.
> > A useful thing that would save me a lot of time would be to have DOS
> > give me its teething troubles (errors) in the log file that I output
> > to.
> > This way I can immediately tell where a problem is.
> >
> > The command would be in a DOS bat file.
> > So far I use things like @[EMAIL PROTECTED]
something >> log.txt
> > Well, I'd like the "something" to be the errors.
> >
> > Probably very simple, but I have no idea...
> > Thanks for any help
>
> To get output from a command generated to both StdOut and StdErr into a
> log file, try "command>>log.txt 2>>&1"
>
> That will only work if the command actually uses StdOut and StdErr, but
> many (most?) do so it's your best bet. I'm not sure how you would go
> about it if the command doesn't use StdOut/StdErr, but if you happen to
> be in that situation post back and maybe someone else can help.
That will only work if the OS is of the NT/2K/XP/2K3 line.
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Todd Vargo
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