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From: bruceb@amiga.UUCP (Bruce Barrett)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: AMIGA DIRECTORY PRINT
Message-ID: <1112@amiga.amiga.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 6-May-86 12:04:32 EDT
Article-I.D.: amiga.1112
Posted: Tue May  6 12:04:32 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 7-May-86 06:15:29 EDT
References: <147@ecs.OZ>
Reply-To: bruceb@hunter.UUCP (Bruce Barrett)
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Keywords: Can't make it go !

In article <147@ecs.OZ> sjl@ecs.OZ (Stephen Lamb) writes:
>
>I have tried...'dir lib10: opt a to prt:' ,and the response is
>'bad arguments' ...
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>		  Stephen Lamb,
>
>		  ACSnet :sjl@ecs.OZ

Stephen,
	This is a common request for people without the AmigaDOS manuals.
The way to find out what is going on is to type:
	DIR ?
The response is:
	DIR,OPT/K: _
This means that DIR takes 2 arguments, neither is required (/A), the
second must have the "OPT" keywork in addition to the value you want to
assign to OPT (/K).  The options for DIR are A (for all) and I (for
interactive).  There is no way to determine this from the "DIR,OPT/K: _"
help line.

Redirection is done BEFORE any other other parameters.  So... what you
want is:
	DIR >prt: LIB10: opt a

This is "so easy" to do it does make one wonder why some commands (like
TYPE) have a "TO" parameter.  Must be TO confuse Austrailians :-).

To redirect input and output use:
	foo <input >output p1 p2 p3	or 	foo >output <input p1 p2 p3
--Bruce Barrett