>>>>> 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.


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