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Hi,

On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 01:38:00PM -0500, Cornelius Creedon wrote:
> > faxspool 12345 input.file.s >/some/where/faxspool.out 2>&1
> 
> ahh. thank you, gert!
> this is exactly the incantation i was looking for.

Glad to help.

> can you point me to some reading to really understand that?
> i mean, i understand redirection i think, but more explanation would be
> great. who is responsible for taking care of this? the shell?

Yes, it's the shell who is doing the redirection (which is also the reason
why bash/ksh/sh have a different syntax for that than csh/tcsh).  Any good
book about shell programming should cover all the variants of redirection
(I learnt it from reading the "man sh" man page on my SCO Unix).

gert
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