Thanks Ken,
I remembered it being something like that
but sadly, it ain't happening.  Maybe I am misunderstanding your answer.  what
does the /s do?
Would the OS matter?

Ken wrote:

> J Charter wrote:
> >
> > would be most grateful for the answer...
> >
> > I am running compiles in DOS from the "dosprompt" or "consol" that W98
> > provides and I want to stream the compiler errors, which are normally
> > written to the consol, to a file instead.  I know I used to do this once
> > upon a time, but cannot remember what the switch is and cannot seem to
> > turn it up in any books I have.  Can anyone be so kind ...
> > jc
>
> Just use  " > "  at the end of your command line to pipe it to a .txt file
>
> dir c: /s > c_drive.txt
>
> If you want to append it to an existing file use the following -
>
> dir d: /s >> c_drive.txt
>
> --
> Ken Tyler

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