Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 08:21:08 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Alexei A. Frounze wrote:

> ever tried to do something like this:
>   c:\>dir |more
> ?
> try to add " |more" and see what happens.
> or even better...
> add " >test.txt" -- this will write the output to a text file instead of the
> screen.

This will not work with programs which print error messages to stderr 
instead of stdout.  COMMAND.COM doesn't know how to redirect stderr.