Re: Redirecting standard output

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 01 May 2011 02:06:46 +0200
> 
> I've now done this.  I have not verified that it works on Windows/DOS,
> so if someone could do that (and fix up any bloopers :-), I'd be
> grateful.
> 
> The test case is:
> 
> (call-process "echo" nil '(:file "/tmp/buffer") nil "hello")
> 
> which should leave you with a file called "/tmp/buffer" with "hello\n"
> as the contents.

Thanks.

It didn't work on DOS, because Emacs was trying to read from a
temporary file which we don't create when :file is used.

I fixed that; see the diffs for revno 104152.1.2 for the gory details
(if you are interested).