>>>>> On Tue, 17 Feb 98, "IW" == IAN WATKINS wrote:
IW> On my system the dpkg --help seems to come out on the wrong console. For IW> instance if I do a dpkg --help | less then less doesn't seem to come into IW> the picture at all. To check this out I did dpkg --help 2> dpkg.txt and all the help came IW> out in the file. IW> Is this correct behaviour or am I missing something? AFAICT all the IW> other packages I have done a | less on to get the help have worked as I IW> expected. Dpkg --help prints on stderr, not on stdout as most others do. This is not an expected behavior, and a bug is already filed. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation.... Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .