I've got a batch file that I use in Windows, when I right click on a Drive or Folder the option to use it is there, it runs: dir/s %1 >c:\windows\desktop\dirlist.txt As you can see it lists the directory and save it as a text file onto desktop. My question is this:> Is there a way to give it a better file name? set var1=??the dirve id or the folder name??? dir/s %1 >c:\windows\desktop\dir_%var1%.txt Any help would be greatfull, Topz

Nothing wrong with the name. Can you ve more specific as to exactly what you want?

dir/s "%1" >c:\windows\desktop\"dir-%1.out" That should work, I just like the extention .OUT because I tend to do a lot of command /? > command.out and I want them to show up as a different icon in Explorer than a standard text file. I use the quotes because dos does not like to deal with long file names, and the quotes tend to help with this.