billh@tekig4.TEK.COM (William Hansen) (01/01/88)
I have been trying to get the dir command in version 2.06m of Matt's shell to talk to my printer so that I can have hard copies of my directory lists. I type: dir > prt: and I get "redirection error". the shell also tries to access df2:, (regardless of where the directory actually is, and gripes if there is no disk.) I have an A2000 with 3-1/2 inch drives df0: and df2: I also have a 5-1/4 inch drive df3: and an extra 1/2 meg of ram (1-1/2M total), hope this helps. Has anyone else had problems with redirection from the shell? Bill Hansen billh@teklim.LIM.TEK.COM
stroyan@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Mike Stroyan) (01/02/88)
>I type: > > dir > prt: > >and I get "redirection error". The shell doesn't allow space after >. dir >prt: should work. I sure would like to see spaces allowed there in a version 2.08. Mike Stroyan, [hplabs!]hpfcla!stroyan
sdl@linus.UUCP (Steven D. Litvintchouk) (01/02/88)
Posting-Front-End: GNU Emacs 18.47.1 of Sun Aug 2 1987 on linus (berkeley-unix) In article <2310@tekig4.TEK.COM> billh@tekig4.TEK.COM (William Hansen) writes: > I have been trying to get the dir command in version 2.06m of Matt's shell > to talk to my printer so that I can have hard copies of my directory lists. > > I type: > dir > prt: > > and I get "redirection error". Just leave out the space between the ">" and the "prt:". That is, type: dir >prt: This syntax is documented in the documentation file that comes with the shell. Steven Litvintchouk MITRE Corporation Burlington Road Bedford, MA 01730 Fone: (617)271-7753 ARPA: sdl@mitre-bedford.arpa UUCP: ...{cbosgd,decvax,genrad,ll-xn,mit-eddie,philabs,utzoo}!linus!sdl "Those who will be able to conquer software will be able to conquer the world." -- Tadahiro Sekimoto, president, NEC Corp.
rouaix@inria.UUCP (Francois Rouaix) (01/03/88)
In article <2310@tekig4.TEK.COM>, billh@tekig4.TEK.COM (William Hansen) writes: > I type: > dir > prt: > and I get "redirection error". Well, I had this problem too in the early beginning, and thought this can't be possible. I read the doc and found out that you should not put a space between redirection symbol > and file (or device) name. Therefore, the correct command would be (I think) dir >prt: Hope it works ! -- *- Francois Rouaix // When the going gets tough, * *- rouaix@inria.inria.fr \X/ the guru goes meditating... * *- SYSOP of Sgt. Flam's Lonely Amigas Club. (33) (1) 39-55-84-59 (Videotext) *
billh@tekig4.TEK.COM (William Hansen) (01/09/88)
Thanks to all of you for your help, cat file >prt: does do the trick. Bill Hansen