/*
C# Programming Tips & Techniques
by Charles Wright, Kris Jamsa
Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill (December 28, 2001)
ISBN: 0072193794
*/
// Redirect.cs -- Demonstrates redirecting the Console output to a file
//
// Compile this program with the following command line:
// C:>csc Redirect.cs
//
using System;
using System.IO;
namespace nsStreams
{
public class Redirect
{
static public void Main ()
{
FileStream ostrm;
StreamWriter writer;
TextWriter oldOut = Console.Out;
try
{
ostrm = new FileStream ("./Redirect.txt", FileMode.OpenOrCreate, FileAccess.Write);
writer = new StreamWriter (ostrm);
}
catch (Exception e)
{
Console.WriteLine ("Cannot open Redirect.txt for writing");
Console.WriteLine (e.Message);
return;
}
Console.SetOut (writer);
Console.WriteLine ("This is a line of text");
Console.WriteLine ("Everything written to Console.Write() or");
Console.WriteLine ("Console.WriteLine() will be written to a file");
Console.SetOut (oldOut);
writer.Close();
ostrm.Close();
Console.WriteLine ("Done");
}
}
}