On 2/1/07, Nico Heinze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> It writes to stdout. Which under Unix is usually connected to the
> terminal where the application has been started on.
> Under Windows there is nothing like stdout.

Well, if you develop console-based applications (command-line
applications), you can use stdin, stdout, etc. Porting a text-based
tool from Unix to the Windows console is much easier... you can even
use libraries like ncurses between the two.

-- Brett
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