Redirecting stderr to stdout

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Yesterday I replied to an email from a teammate in which I incorrectly stated that you can't redirect stderr to stdout in DOS -- er, I mean a command window in Microsoft Windows.

I would have sworn the last time I tried something like the following in Windows Server 2003 (a couple of years ago), I got an error message:

"Redeploy Features.cmd" > tmp.log 2>&1

Fortunately another teammate on the thread, Prashant Nayak, experimented with this and confirmed that it actually does work. Thanks, Prashant, for setting the record straight!