disabling and enabling console output

[Alex]

On Thursday, 16 May 2019 at 17:49:24 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Thursday, 16 May 2019 at 14:53:14 UTC, Alex wrote:
>> I have some code that disables the console because some other 
>> code puts junk on it that I don't want to see
>
> soooo stupid question but can't you just edit the other code to 
> not put junk on it?
>

No, it is in an external lib and I'd have to mod the code, 
maintain it, and compile it...

should be much simpler just to redirect stdout.

In fact, it works, I just can figure out how to re-enable it.