how to view all the errors?

[shree vijay]

hi,
I am working in Java from the DOS prompt. What should i do if i want to see all the compilation errors?( If i get, say, 10 errors, i get only the last 4 after the scroll...) I tried redirecting the compile results like this

javac StrEq.java > errtxt.txt
The errtxt file is created but it doesn't contain anything...
it takes 0 bytes on seeing the directory listing...
Any clues?
Shree

[Thomas Paul]

If you are using NT, go to properties and increase the height of the buffer size.

[shree vijay]

Hi,
I am using windows 98.
Is there a way out?

[Apu Nahasapeemapetilon]

Hummmm. Hummm. Hummmmm.
Apu not having much success. Have you tried unix, the redirection will work there.
Actually, in the abscence of creating your own compiler, you can create your own class to compile and conserve output of the compiler. Bloody ridiculous, but what the hey.

Process P;
BufferedReader BR;

try
{
P = rt.exec("rtopcb /s delta\\Stage1\\download\\" + _table + "working.tto");
BR = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(P.getInputStream()));
String line = BR.readLine();
//do whatever with line
//write to file, DB, whatever
//oops rest of try/catch
//squishee pox upon me

[This message has been edited by Apu Nahasapeemapetilon (edited October 02, 2000).]

[shree vijay]

Apu,

I don't get that explanation, could you explain?
Shree

[Marilyn de Queiroz]

I am working in Java from the DOS prompt. What should i do if i want to see all the compilation errors?( If i get, say, 10 errors, i get only the last 4 after the scroll...) I tried redirecting the compile results like this
javac StrEq.java > errtxt.txt
The errtxt file is created but it doesn't contain anything... it takes 0 bytes on seeing the directory listing...

Use this instead:
javac -Xstdout StrEq.java > errtxt.txt
Marilyn

[Jane Griscti]

Hi Marilyn,
-Xstderr won't work with JDK 1.3; they've removed the X function compatibility.
David J. Eck includes a small program, cef.java, to do re-direction on Win98 systems. He has an online book Introduction to Programming Using Java and includes the code and instructions in an Appendix, Some Notes on Java Programmin Environments
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Jane

[Marilyn de Queiroz]

Thanks for the info, Jane. It's too bad that Sun dropped their support for this. I think it frequently can be a big issue with java newbies.
Marilyn