Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
I think a flag is a muuuuch cleaner way to do this. What's wrong with -stderr?
nothing but the fact that this does not work on windows.
either an application is a true windows application, then stderr will go into nirvana; or the application is a "DOS"-application, then it will have this annoying DOS-box that confuses most people. you cannot have an application that decides at runtime to which group it belongs. (although i am fully with you, that it would be far more elegant)
my source of information has always been http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/02/CQA/ i guess, they do know their OS.
mfg.asdr. IOhannes
outing myself as mr. know-it-all, i have written a mail exactly about this issue at the end of february this year. didn't seem to bother anyone then.