[gmx-developers] Help output going to stderr

David van der Spoel spoel at xray.bmc.uu.se
Thu Jun 19 17:55:27 CEST 2003


On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 17:17, Filipe Maia wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I'm completly new to GROMACS, and was wondering why all the -h output from the programs goes to stderr instead of stdout. It makes the use of "more" more troublesome. Is there any reason for it to go to stderr? I know this is really an insignificant detail, but if you want i have a patch for it (simply changing  gmxlib/statutil.c).
> 
probably a good idea to limit stderr usage to error output...

> BTW this program really is amazing :-D. Congratulations!
thanx
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David van der Spoel <spoel at xray.bmc.uu.se>



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