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From: s9100202@giaea.gi.oz (Lee Hollingworth)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Redirecting I/O for .BAT files?
Message-ID: <1976@giaea.gi.oz>
Date: 18 Jun 91 06:05:01 GMT
References: <27213@adm.brl.mil>
Organization: Monash University College Gippsland, Churchill 3842, Victoria, AUSTRALIA.
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In article <27213@adm.brl.mil> s2525090@techst02.technion.ac.il (Eran Davidov) writes:
>If you want to Redirect the IO from a batch file, there must first of
>all be an output to redirect.
>when you used the "@echo off", you made sure nothing was to be printed to the
>screen. therefore, nothing was redirected. try the following batch file:
>--- start of batch
>DIR
>--- end of batch
>
>now, when you use it this way: FOO > OUT.DAT
>the output will be redirected to a file, instead of appearing on your screen.
>
>			Hope it helps, Eran

Have you actually tried this?

My understanding is that using your example, DOS would create a file OUT.DAT
but the size of that file would be 0.

To redirect output from a batch file, you must use the Command command.

command /c FOO > OUT.DAT

This would redirect the output from FOO.BAT to OUT.DAT.


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