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echo: batpower
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from: Robert Bull
date: 2004-10-10 20:09:00
subject: DIR piping under Win2000

Hello, All;

Owing to the PSU on the Win95 machine at work burning out, they gave me a 
Win2000 machine.  The command-prompt emulation seems to have rather a lot 
of unfortunate irritations that weren't there in earlier Windows versions.  
One is bizarre - I seem to be able to redirect DIR to a file, but not to a 
pipe, i.e.

dir *.txt /b > dir.lst            works
dir *.txt /b | lmod /L* []        fails

The machine is tied to a Citrix thin-client network, and maybe there's a 
problem with the set-up.  Does anyone know if Win2000 "DOS box" DIR is 
meant to work better than this?

Current solution - use Stan Peters' LILDIR or Charles Dye's MDIR, both of 
which still work OK in pipes.

     Thanks in anticipation,

              Robert.

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