Re: redirection

Certainly. Use the SHELL command. Assuming that you're using QBASIC,
something like the following should work.

-- Begin code -----
OPEN "TheFile.txt" FOR INPUT AS #1
DO WHILE NOT EOF(1)
LINE INPUT #1, F$
SHELL "xcopy " + F$ + " DestFldr"
LOOP
CLOSE #1
SYSTEM
-- End Code -----

It's not every efficient though. A better method might be to get BASIC
to write a batch file from the original text file and SHELL to that.

-- Begin code -----
OPEN "Temp.bat" FOR OUTPUT AS #2
OPEN "TheFile.txt" FOR INPUT AS #1
DO WHILE NOT EOF(1)
LINE INPUT #1, F$
PRINT #2, "xcopy " + F$ + " DestFldr"
LOOP
CLOSE #1
CLOSE #2
SHELL "cmd /c temp.bat"
SYSTEM
-- End Code -----

Warning! I have just thrown those two together as examples. Neither has
been tested so I may have included some silly mistake or typo which
prevents them from working without minor fixes. But on the other hand,
I might not. They are just intended as pointers indicating how to call
DOS programs like "xcopy" from BASIC.

Cheers

Derek

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