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   Bj”rn Wiberg to g00r00   
   Redirecting only stderr to NUL on Window   
   09 Aug 21 13:06:44   
   
   TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A47   
   MSGID: 2:201/137 316589ae   
   TZUTC: 0200   
   Hello g00r00!   
      
   Came to think of it -- is there any reason why Mystic on Windows (according to   
   whatsnew.txt) doesn't sink stdout of archiver commands to NUL (> NUL), but   
   rather just stderr (2> NUL)? That is, why it performs "2> NUL" instead of ">   
   NUL 2>&1"?   
      
   Since -- isn't it so that any output from these commands will be shown to the   
   user (possibly confusing the user and garbling the "screen" with a lot of   
   technical mumbo-jumbo)? So one wants to avoid any such output to the user?   
      
   Granted that sinking stdout to /dev/null or NUL in general *does* create a   
   problem for the archive View Cmd -- as the redirection to an output file will   
   break... But this is easy to "fix" with a simple work-around for the View Cmd   
   (e.g. for 7Z and ARJ):   
      
   Linux: command "%1" >> "%3%2" 2> /dev/null; exit $?   
   Windows: command "%1" >> "%3%2" 2> NUL || exit 1   
      
   The last one is a little "sloppy" as it doesn't capture the exact exit code on   
   error. I believe it might be possible to capture the actual exit code also on   
   Windows, but one would have to use delayed expansion, but I'm no expert in   
   that area.   
      
   Just curious (as this is a difference for "external" archive viewing between   
   Mystic on Linux and Windows).   
      
   Best regards   
   Bj”rn   
      
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