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From: crum@utah-cs.UUCP (Gary L. Crum)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Screen width for 'ED'
Message-ID: <3551@utah-cs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 19-Nov-85 08:58:33 EST
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> 2.	How would you get a 'DIR opt a' listing to "prt:".  If I say
>	"DIR > prt:" no sweat... but "DIR opt a > prt:" returns an error.

In section 2.1 of the AmigaDOS User's Manual, the syntax of commands with
I/O redirection is presented.  It is:

<command>[>]|[<][<arg>*]

This means that the ">prt:" in your example must come before the "opt a".
Try "dir >prt: opt a".

[Gary C]