SPUG: Re: die from BEGIN; how suppress ugly message?

Tim Maher/CONSULTIX tim at consultix-inc.com
Wed Jan 26 16:05:07 CST 2000


On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 02:00:42PM -0800, Tim Maher/CONSULTIX wrote:
> SPUGicans,
> 
> Does anybody know an elegant, simple (might be asking too much there)
> way to trap/suppress/avoid this kind of ugly message when I call
> exit or die from within BEGIN?
> 
> $ turbo_fax
> Usage: turbo_fax  file1 [file2 . . .]
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./in_place line 19.
> $

Had a brainstorm just after posting the question to the list:
	open STDERR, "> /dev/null"
does the trick.  Anybody know other solutions?

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