Hello Eugene, about ctty
 CM>> Unfortunatly you also wouldn't be able to get any errormessages
 CM>> that way unless you catch them explicitly.
 ESE> You can redirect these messages to a file : someprog /tsx >> %err_log 

      After I read that, I tried...
      ctty nul
      echo Hi >con
      ctty con
      it works.
      Claus did say "unless you catch them explicitly."
      So we have two ways to catch text that is not written to the screen
      directly.
Regards, Barry
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