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From: richard@calvin.EE.CORNELL.EDU (Richard Brittain)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Batch files and pipes
Keywords: redirection batch pipe
Message-ID: <937@calvin.EE.CORNELL.EDU>
Date: 11 Feb 89 05:59:09 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Cornell Space Plasma Physics, Ithaca, NY
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I have two questions concerning i/o redirection and pipes in msdos for
all the msdos gurus. Firstly, is there an easy way to redirect output
from a batch file (i.e. from the last command in the batch which produces
output, and which normally could be redirected if used alone).  I have
tried many combinations but non seem to work. I am using version 4.01

The other question is where the temporary files for faking pipes are put.
Msdos wants to make them always in the root directory but it is much
faster (and quieter) to have them in ramdisk. I have batch files with
constructs like DIR >D:\JUNK
                SORT <D:\JUNK where D: is my ramdisk -  this is much
faster than dir|sort but I was hoping there was a way to instruct
msdos to do this automagically.


Richard Brittain,                   School of Elect. Eng.,  Upson Hall   
                                    Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
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