Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!linus!sdl
From: sdl@linus.UUCP (Steven D. Litvintchouk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: shell redirection version 2.06m
Message-ID: <20958@linus.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jan 88 02:40:27 GMT
References: <2310@tekig4.TEK.COM>
Organization: The MITRE Corp., Bedford, MA
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In-reply-to: billh@tekig4.TEK.COM's message of 31 Dec 87 21:33:41 GMT

Posting-Front-End: GNU Emacs 18.47.1 of Sun Aug  2 1987 on linus (berkeley-unix)



In article <2310@tekig4.TEK.COM> billh@tekig4.TEK.COM (William Hansen) writes:

> I have been trying to get the dir command in version 2.06m of Matt's shell
> to talk to my printer so that I can have hard copies of my directory lists.
> 
> I type:
> 		dir > prt:
> 
> and I get "redirection error". 

Just leave out the space between the ">" and the "prt:".  That is, type:
		dir >prt:

This syntax is documented in the documentation file that comes with
the shell.  


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