In article <1995Apr3.145931.42879@miavx1>, [log in to unmask] (Aaron
D. Yonka) writes:
> [log in to unmask] (Brian J. Bernstein) writes:
>>   I was wondering how redirection is supported in VMS.. I would like to take
a
>> directory and dump it to a text file. In DOS, it would be DIR >DIRFILE.TXT
..
>> so how about VMS?
>>
>> Thanks..
>
> Try this:
>
> $ DIR /OUTPUT=DIRFILE.TXT
>
> to use the same filenames as your above DOS example.
>
> Check out HELP DIRECTORY /OUTPUT for more.
 
Yes.  Most command have a /OUTPUT qualifier that lets you specify a
filename.  For those that don't you might want to try the PIPE command.
For example:
 
    $ PIPE DIR > DIRFILE.TXT
 
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