Re: [Gimp-developer] Console window on Win32

[Tor Lillqvist <tml iki fi>]

Iago Rubio writes:
> Do you know any native windows application that opens a DOS window for
> show it's output ?

Surely you know that a console window has nothing to do with MS-DOS?

> If you app hangs on Linux and you want to know it's output you've got to
> redirect strderr/stdout to a file, or open a console window and run the
                                      ^^
> application from there.

> The same can be done on windows.

Except that on Windows it's not "or", but "and". Just starting a GUI
application from a command shell in a console window doesn't make its
stderr and stdout connected.

--tml