SPUG: redirect close

[Baker, Stephen M]

I'm maintaining a program where I constantly see 
	
	2>&1 

which I believe redirects STDOUT to STDIN, but regardless of what exactly it
does I'm aware its a redirect of some kind and I would really like to know
its scope for declaration and how to cut it off.  Is it limited to the block
it is declared in, or does this type of command continue to live on outside
of a give code block.

Stephen Baker				Office:	253.371.4188
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