redirecting stdin/stdout

[Jonas Svensson]

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Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 04:57:21AM -0700, Hal Daume III ->
> I would like to be able to semi-permanently redirect stdout
> particularly.  That is, say something like:
>=20
> main =3D do
>   h <- openFile "myoutput" WriteMode
>   setStdOut h
>   ..crux of the program..
>   hClose h
>=20
> where any call which uses stdout either explicitly or implicitly (through
> putStr and the like) is redirecto to h.
>=20
> I didn't see anything of this sort in either the std libs IO or in the
> GHC.IO/IOBase modules...would such a thingbe possible?

If you are using UNIX the dupTo (in C dup2) function in the Posix
module might do the trick.

/jonas
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