Socket question

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 06:49:26PM -0400, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> Early testing showed that, if filePro were to use stdio (actually,
> STD_INPUT_HANDLE and STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE), and you were to redirect
> stdout to a file, nothing would show up on the screen, and nothing
> would show up in the file, either.  Also, redirecting stdin from a
> file would not cause filePro to read the file for input.  This is
> because the Windows console API doesn't act like file I/O.

Just the latest in a *series* of excellent reasons not to use it.

(The Windows Console API, or Windows itself; take your pick.)

Cheers,
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