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Well, I often use a redirect (>)in DOS for output from
command line commands. For example:
this redirects the output of the "dir" command to the
txt file files.txt.
You can create/overwrite with a single >.
You can create/append with a double >>.
You can get fancy with some of the switches on some of
the DOS commands. For example,
c:\ProjectDir> dir /b /s *.html > files.txt
the /? option on most DOS commands will give you help
on the command syntax and all the options. And of
course, you can always redirect that to a text file:
c:\ProjectDir> dir /? > dirhelp.txt
No idea how you would do this with a .pdf file,
though. One thing I do with PDF sometimes, is
highlight the entire text and paste it into notepad.
Ugly but works.
Good Luck and Happy Friday.
Kevin Cheek
cheek1 -at- sbcglobal -dot- net
cheek1_listsonly -at- yahoo -dot- com
A long time ago, I remember that the was a way in DOS
to pipe a file (output), a PDF file for example to a
plain text file (input) through a DOS command.
Does anyone remember how to do this? And, if someone
has the answer, I'd love to share it, if they do not
publicly post it...
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