Re: Printing Files

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From: Dave (Dave_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/06/05 

Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 09:25:04 -0800

I'm sorry I'm not familiar with dos
I go to start run, and type command
the I change the directory till I get to the directory I want to be in?
I then type c:\dirlist.txt? what does this do?
I then type c:\dirlist.txt again? I'm confused?

"JDThree [MVP]" wrote:

> On 1/6/2005 11:09:10 AM, "=?Utf-8?B?RGF2ZQ==?="
> wrote: >How do you use the command line to redirect
> output to a textfile? >
>
> You'd pipe it to a file - example:
>
> command > file.txt
>
> dir > c:\dirlist.txt
>
> dir /s > c:\dirlist.txt
>
> dir /o:d > c:\dirlist.txt
>
> etc...
>
>
> --
> John
>

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