Trying to generate text file using ">"

[Am1]

Hi - 


I am attempting to use a 16-bit program to generate a list of files and send it to a *.txt file using the ">" command.  While it will generate it on the screen; and it appears to work, no file is generated.   Any ideas?


Thank you!

[Jos]

Your program calls the command shell with something like “DIR *.* >dir.txt”, but the file list is displayed instead of written to dir.txt?

Jos

[Herman]

Jos,

If I do that then I get in my tekstfile:

Volume in drive C is C_DRIVE Volume Serial Number is 104C:0A77 Directory of C:\GENEALOG. <DIR> 22-10-18 13:16.. <DIR> 22-10-18 13:16AGENDA DBF 745 18-10-18 14:38AGENDA EXE 2581277 18-10-18 14:47AGENDA MAP 6911 18-10-18 14:47AGENDA MDX 66560 18-10-18 14:38AGENDA PRG 17573 18-10-18 14:42AKTEFOTO DBF 10875246 18-10-18 15:21

and so one, while I expect this in Windows kladblok in ""normal"" way:

Volume in drive C is C_DRIVE
Volume Serial Number is 104C:0A77
Directory of C:\GENEALOG

. <DIR> 22-10-18 13:16
.. <DIR> 22-10-18 13:16
AGENDA DBF 745 18-10-18 14:38
AGENDA EXE 2581277 18-10-18 14:47
AGENDA MAP 6911 18-10-18 14:47
AGENDA MDX 66560 18-10-18 14:38
AGENDA PRG 17573 18-10-18 14:42
AKTEFOTO DBF 10875246 18-10-18 15:21

Regards Herman

[bluepukeko]

Hi, I've got the same "problem"
We are running a very old version of basic, probably from an MSDOS system.
We call from the basic program a sort using < to direct input from a file and > to direct output to a file.
Have found that provided we give the full path name the input works fine, but we can't capture the output.
Does vdos allow for standard output to be redirected to a file, and if so how do we do so.

[Jos]

Hermans problem was that vDos appends single linefeeds instead of linefeeds/carriage return combinations with the DIR command.

vDos should support redirecting standard i/o, but I wouldn’t be surprised it has some issues.

Can’t you just use for instance Windows SORT with:
CMD /c sort <Windows path input file> /O <Windows path output file>

Jos