From: Fredrik <fredjoha@...>
Date: 2007-10-12T14:45:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Ignore printout

>
> You will need to reopen STDOUT to /dev/null
>

Then I have two more questions to that :)

1) What's the difference between $stdout and STDOUT? They seem to be
the same thing.

2) In my pickaxe book I read that "Assignment to $stdout is
depracated; use $stdout.reopen instead." But if I want to redirect
$stdout and then $direct it back to what it was before, surely I HAVE
to use assignment to $stdout. Like this:

out = $stdout
$stdout = File.new('/dev/null','w')
puts 'This is not to be seen by anybody.'
$stdout.reopen(out)

If I use reopen on the second line instead, the 'out' variable comes
along to this new value and nobody knows where the "usual stdout" is,
right?