You wrote to the SurvPC list:
>The problem is that my syntax is not correct DOS and I'm not sure if DOS
>supports what I want to do:
>
>APPEND ECHO DIR C:\WORK\*.XYZ C:\WORK\TIME.TXT
>
>I know that's not correct and DOS knows it too.
>
>Is there a way to do this in DOS?
>
Yes - try this:
DIR C:\WORK\*.XYZ >> C:\WORK\TIME.TXT
Note that the double > before C:\WORK\TIME.TXT is NOT a
mistake - the >> causes the latest directory listing to be
appended to the existing file TIME.TXT, rather than creating
a new TIME.TXT.
Hope it's helpful,
Ron.
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