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Re: how do I portably discard stderr for MathLink programs

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  • Subject: [mg42344] Re: how do I portably discard stderr for MathLink programs
  • From: nafod40 <may106 at NOSPAM.psu.edu>
  • Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 06:36:06 -0400 (EDT)
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Langston, Matthew David wrote:

> I just ported my MathLink program to a new platform (Linux) and now
> when I run my MathLink program the Mathematica message window keeps
> popping up with a bunch of stderr output. The stderr output is simply
> diagnostic output from a third party library that I have no control
> over (but which I link my MathLink program against). 
> 
> I don't want users to see this output. How do I portably dump stderr
> output in such a way that Mathematica doesn't keep popping up Message
> windows. Is there a way to tell Mathematica to ignore this stderr
> output? 

If you do a search on "$Messages" in the Mathematica help, it will show you 
a way to solve your problem. Basically, reset the $Messages variable to 
dev/null, so to speak.


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