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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: <2007@giaea.gi.oz>
Date: 22 Jun 91 01:05:02 GMT
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In article <45670021@hpcupt3.cup.hp.com> defaria@hpcupt3.cup.hp.com (Andy DeFaria) writes:
>>/ hpcupt3:comp.lang.pascal / s2525090@techst02.technion.ac.il (Eran Davidov) /  4:04 pm  Jun 16, 1991 /

[lot's deleted..]

>This is totally untested and blantly false.  "@echo off" does no such thing
>and the example .BAT file just does a DIR to the screen (and creates a zero
>length OUT.DAT file) when FOO > OUT.DAT is executed.
>
>I guess I'll just have  to re-implement the wheel, open  the  .BAT file and
>execute the commands myself, redirecting output as I go.  This is  gonna be
>a pain, unless someone knows a better answer....


Have a look at article 4334 in comp.lang.pascal -- I've already answered this
once.

The only way to get DOS to redirect the output from a *.bat file is to do so
with the COMMAND command eg.,

command /c foo > out.dat

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