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For the whole story, check out the FAQ.

(almost) everything you wanted to know about RUN and SHELL

Hopefully that won't find it's way off the boards any time soon!

I tried find a FAQ that would cover this (and other questions) but haven't had any luck. Is there a formally maintained FAQ somewhere?

The biggest thing was understanding that you can't do any redirection with specifying the command interpreter. Once that's understood it makes life easier!

I also always just redirected to > NUL, I didn't realize you could specify 1>NUL and 2>NUL to differentiate between standard output and error output.

-D