Re: Oops - I ran into a problem trying to use DOS to write to an html file

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: : : Thanks for the help I got on this forum when I : : : asked about using a DOS batch program to write : : : to a file. I was able to use FOR to append lines : : : of info to a file, but when I tried to append : : : info to an html file, the angle brackets in HTML : : : (for example xxx) seem to mess up the FOR : : : sequence. No part of the FOR sequence will work : : : and it reports a FILE NOT FOUND error. Obviously : : : it is interpreting the angle brackets in some : : : way (as a file name?). If I put the : : : angle-bracketed word in quotes, the FOR sequence : : : will work until it reaches that point and then : : : it stops. If I put the angle-bracketed word in : : : double quotes, the batch file works, but it : : : completely ignores the angle-bracketed word. It : : : does not write it to the file. The sequence goes : : : right on as if it wasn't there at all. Is there : : : any way to write an angle bracket to a file? : : ## : : Note: Change the curly braces in the following to angle brackets. : : -- : : Command: : : for %x in (apple "{orange}" pear) do echo %x >> fubar.txt : : : : Contents of "fubar.txt": : : apple : : "{orange}" : : pear : Doesn't work on my WIN 98 system, but it DOES work on my WIN XP system. Odd. : Let's see if I've got it right. Here's a description of what I put in my batch file: : for %%x in (apple quotemark lessthananglebracket orange greaterthananglebracket quotemark pear) do echo %%x >> fubar.txt : On the WIN 98 computer it does write the word apple to the fubar.txt file, but then it bombs with a FILE NOT FOUND error. : Any idea why it works on XP DOS but not on WIN98 DOS?