I often write console programs that need to detect when stdin and stdout are
redirected.

I found out how to detect this for stdin by using API calls GetStdHandle()
and PeekConsoleInput() (from a Dr. GUI article).

But I still need to detect such for stdout, is there a way?

And shouldn't this be a property of the standard streams?

How about use the Console class?

"PIEBALD" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I often write console programs that need to detect when stdin and stdout
are
> redirected.
>
> I found out how to detect this for stdin by using API calls GetStdHandle()
> and PeekConsoleInput() (from a Dr. GUI article).
>
> But I still need to detect such for stdout, is there a way?
>
> And shouldn't this be a property of the standard streams?

Well, of course I'm using the Console class, but it has no built-in detection
for redirection. It allows one to redirect, but won't tell you whether or not
it's _already_ redirected.

No one has any ideas?