[Jonny Robertson <jonny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

ahhhh..  *grin*

thanks.  I had tried to do it that way and typed it incorrectly.  :))
couldn't quite understand how it was still writing back to my screen.

-jonny



On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Guy Harris wrote:

> > In some instances i find it to be extremely useful to see the packet count
> > on my pty, but in others i would like to be able to suppress that
> > altogether.
> > 
> > Is there a cmd line option to switch it off?
> 
> Yes.  The switch has the syntax
> 
> 	>/dev/null 2>&1
> 
> in the Bourne shell and Bourne-compatible shells and
> 
> 	>&/dev/null
> 
> in the C shell and C-shell-compatible shells.  Add those strings before
> the "&" at the end of your command line. :-)
> 
> (I.e., if you want to suppress output from a backgrounded program, send
> the output to "/dev/null".)
>