Hi,
On 03 Nov 01 06:42, J.D. wrote to All: about: "Re: [MP3 ENCODER] How to read output of lame's --preset help ?": >> How do you read the ouput of lame's '--preset help' on a dos/win >> machine? >> It's much to big to fit on a single (80x25) screen, so you effectively >> only see the last couple of lines. And redirecting the output to a file >> doesn't work because apparently lame writes it to stderr. JD> If you are stuck with Microsoft DOS, you need to grab a utility to JD> redirect stderr. With a DOS window, you can probably see most of JD> the options just by changing the properties, so that the screen JD> displays 50 lines instead of 25. JD> Unfortunately, with plain MS-DOS you cannot just type something JD> like "lame --preset help 2>&1 | more" to page through stderr, JD> or "lame --preset help 2> help.txt" to get a file to read. JD> For those platforms that present a problem with reading stderr, JD> perhaps LAME should be modified to instead dump help to stdout. That's what I'm getting at, the way it is now, the '--present help' function isn't very usefull on those platforms. So it would be a good thing if this could be changed. Bye, Wilfred. _______________________________________________ mp3encoder mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/mp3encoder
