* the child process would hang forever waiting for input from the
	 * unmapped console window used by the helper application.
	 *
	 * Fortunately, the helper application will detect a closed pipe as a
	 * sink.
	 */

	if ((TclWinGetPlatformId() == VER_PLATFORM_WIN32_WINDOWS)
		&& (applType == APPL_DOS)) {
	    if (CreatePipe(&h, &startInfo.hStdOutput, &secAtts, 0) != FALSE) {
		CloseHandle(h);
	    }
	} else {
	    startInfo.hStdOutput = CreateFileA("NUL:", GENERIC_WRITE, 0,
		    &secAtts, OPEN_ALWAYS, FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL, NULL);
	startInfo.hStdOutput = CreateFile(TEXT("NUL:"), GENERIC_WRITE, 0,
		&secAtts, OPEN_ALWAYS, FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL, NULL);
	}
    } else {
	DuplicateHandle(hProcess, outputHandle, hProcess,
		&startInfo.hStdOutput, 0, TRUE, DUPLICATE_SAME_ACCESS);
    }
    if (startInfo.hStdOutput == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) {
	TclWinConvertError(GetLastError());
	Tcl_SetObjResult(interp, Tcl_ObjPrintf(
		"couldn't duplicate output handle: %s",
		Tcl_PosixError(interp)));
	goto end;
    }

    if (errorHandle == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) {
	/*
	 * If handle was not set, errors should be sent to an infinitely deep
	 * sink.
	 */

	startInfo.hStdError = CreateFileA("NUL:", GENERIC_WRITE, 0,
	startInfo.hStdError = CreateFile(TEXT("NUL:"), GENERIC_WRITE, 0,
		&secAtts, OPEN_EXISTING, FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL, NULL);
    } else {
	DuplicateHandle(hProcess, errorHandle, hProcess, &startInfo.hStdError,
		0, TRUE, DUPLICATE_SAME_ACCESS);
    }
    if (startInfo.hStdError == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) {
	TclWinConvertError(GetLastError());