From: ahoward <ahoward@...>
Date: 2003-05-03T00:26:10+09:00
Subject: Re: temporary redirection of stdout

On Fri, 2 May 2003, Brian Candler wrote:

> I profess to not fully understanding the different between $defout, $stdout
> and STDOUT; but I believe that $defout is where puts and friends send their
> output by default, so you can change this to a different Ruby stream without
> touching the stdout which is connected to the process.

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=Pine.LNX.4.53.0303242333140.13691%40eli.fsl.noaa.gov

and view the complete thread.

sorry for the long link - i got frustrated by the ruby-talk search
capabilities and just used google.

-a

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