See also <a href="http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/202/" rel="nofollow">http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/202/</a> for further information about early work (reverse engineering!) at Bell Labs on typesetting machines, and <a href="http://haagens.com/oldtype.tpl.html" rel="nofollow">http://haagens.com/oldtype.tpl.html</a> for general phototypesetting history, featuring gems like: <i>There was a romantic tradition, in [the US] at least, of the drifter Typesetters, who were good enough at the craft to find work wherever they traveled. They'd work in one town until they wanted a change and then drift on. They had a reputation for being well read, occasionally hard drinking, strong union men who enjoyed an independence particularly rare in the 19th century.</i>[0]<p>It's amazing how interlinked typesetting and computing are. Here we have a <i>troff</i> link, then there's the <i>PDF</i> (from <i>postscript</i>) and <i>TeX</i> world, keyboard layouts, telegrams, rotating drums and early mechanical cryptography, etc.<p>If anyone's interested in good collections on the history of printing, I can recommend both the Museum of Printing and Graphic Communication (<i>Musée de l’imprimerie et de la communication graphique</i>) in Lyon, France[1] and the National Technical Museum (<i>Národní technické muzeum</i>) in Prague, Czech Republic,[2] which also sports the best permanent exhibition on the history of photography I have ever seen (by a long shot). For those of you in California, there's also the International Printing Museum[3] in Carson (open 10-4PM Saturdays).<p>[0] Added to 'Hackers of History' section of my fortune clone @ <a href="https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup</a><p>[1] <a href="http://www.imprimerie.lyon.fr/imprimerie/" rel="nofollow">http://www.imprimerie.lyon.fr/imprimerie/</a><p>[2] <a href="http://www.ntm.cz/en" rel="nofollow">http://www.ntm.cz/en</a><p>[3] <a href="http://www.printmuseum.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.printmuseum.org/</a>
I wasn't aware that Microsoft Windows supported a stderr filehandle separate from stdout. When I worked a little on it about 17 years ago, I thought it didn't have that (e.g. warnings from Perl were intermixed with redirected stdout or so). Did I misinterpret something or has the system been changed?<p>(Edit: that was longer ago than I first remembered; it was on Windows NT.)