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   Message 67,679 of 68,980   
   JJ to Kenny McCormack   
   Re: A subdirectory Or file x already exi   
   11 Nov 20 17:06:20   
   
   From: jj4public@gmail.com   
      
   On Wed, 11 Nov 2020 07:34:30 -0000 (UTC), Kenny McCormack wrote:   
   >   
   >     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2   
      
   When it comes to education, Wikipedia is better than Google. But it does not   
   have everything.   
      
   > (in "2> nul")   
   > Actually, it is something borrowed into recent versions of DOS/Windows,   
   > from Unix.   
      
   Actually, DOS and non NT Windows were never involved in this case. DOS never   
   did have a standard error handle. It only has standard output and input   
   handles, and none of them can be substituted with a number.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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