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in reply to Perl ignores lines with bold characters from a pipe on Windows

As proposed by tye you should be able to test the different theories mentioned in other replies.

Check different scenarios on a plain cmd command line.

commandoutput seen in/oninterpretation
outerrscreen
1.mycmd >out 2>err+-+almut
2.++-Joost
other?post it, and someone will explain