Scott Raney wrote:
>
> > I'd suggest you mention "console" somewhere close to stdin
> > and stdout (maybe give them their own entries) in the
> > MetaTalk Reference so people looking for "console" will bring
> > up read/write, too.
>
> Except when UNIX people refer to "console", it's almost always as the
> keyboard and screen physically attached to the computer and never as
> where a process gets its input and output. So you never want to do
> anything specific to a "console". This terminology is more commonly
> (and incorrectly) used on Windows to refer to the character-based
> input/output from DOS applications.
And under Linux, where "console" is also sometimes used for terminal
windows. In particular, KDE uses an xterm window called "Konsole".
Does anyone think that Metacard could benefit from stderr in addition to
stdin and stdout, or is that just unneccessary work for Scott?
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