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.

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