From: not.my.real@email.address   
      
   On Sat, 19 May 2007 06:43:02 GMT, TheRiddle wrote:   
      
   > On May 17, 12:08 pm, "ArtDent"  wrote:   
   >> On 15-May-2007, TheRiddle  wrote:   
   >>   
   >> > ok im just playing around with dos and i made a batch file that   
   >> > pings an ip, is there a way to make the batch save itself to a   
   >> > certain folder but not overwrite the previous results   
   >>   
   >> According to my old IBM DOS 5.0 book, you should use a double   
   >> greater-than sign (>>), which will append to the end of the file   
   >> without deleting the info already in the file.   
   >   
   > what do you mean it will choose the destination and everything   
   > too? if not what other commands would i need?   
      
   He's talking about simple redirection. If you do this:   
   dir>>foo.txt   
   then the contents of the current directory will be appended to the   
   end of the file "foo.txt" (which will be created if it doesn't   
   already exist).   
      
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