On Wed, 03 Jan 2001 18:18:40 -0800, Ken wrote:
>
>
>J Charter wrote:
>> 
>> 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?
>
>> > dir d: /s >> c_drive.txt
>
>Like Ron said it may not work as expected. The "dir" command
>I used was just an example usage of the " > " symbol and the
>/s is used by the dir command to search subdirectories. Since
>I don't know the command line operation you were using I
>couldn't provide an exact example usage of it.

">>" redirects standard output (with append, but that's irrelevant), and most 
compilers (C compilers, anyway) put errors on standard error.  Command.com 
doesn't have a facility for redirecting standard error, unfortunately.


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