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 -- Kent Covert, Software Coordinator Miami Computing and Information Services Miami University, Oxford, OH [log in to unmask] (internet) kacovert@miavx1 (bitnet)