DirectDraw Issues continue

[Martin Owens]

It's 'command &> file' to take both the STDOUT and STDERR into a file.
seems a bit messy to do 'command > file 2> &1'.

I'll work with Imperialism II first, it's my second favourite game
after Imperialism II but I think it'll be easier to fix.

On 7/14/06, Olaf Leidinger <leidola at newcon.de> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> > > WINE_DEBUG=+ddraw,+d3d7 wine settlers.exe > mywinelog
> >
> > The environment variable is WINEDEBUG, not WINE_DEBUG.
>
> And it should be "> filename 2>&1" not only "> filename", as without "2>&1" only standard output, not standard error is written to the file.
>
> WINEDEBUG=+ddraw,+d3d7 wine settlers.exe  > test.log 2>&1
>
> As this files tend to become huge, it'd be good to extract only the last 1000 or 10000 lines (whatever is needed to see what's wrong). You can do this via
>
> tail test.log -n 1000 > test2.log
>
> and compress the output via bzip2
>
> bzip2 test2.log
>
> Or as one-liner
>
> tail test.log -n 1000 | bzip2 > test2.log.bz2
>
>
> Ciao,
>
> Olaf
>
>
>
>
>
>
>