I haven't gone totally crazy but I need to list some basic programs from the mid to late eighties and there are about 17 or 18 so I wrote a batch file that should load each program after sending new, first. What happens with each .bas program is I will load it, list it with the list command directed to a file of the same name as the program only with a .src extention. I then send another new command and do the whole routine again with all the remaining .bas files. I wrote some C code back in that time period that used to work but one part of it fails now and I need to look at what the basic programs did and make it work in C again. For this discussion list, all I need to know is can I call the batch file in basic and can I do the list command >somefile also from basic? You probably don't want to know the rest of the story but that is what I am trying to do now. Thank you Martin McCormick _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list