How do I write a string like "this is a test" into a txt file, hopefully at the end of the document in dos.

echo this is a test >> myfile.txt

1st here I show Jeffs exampel again: ECHO "this is a test" >> "C:\myfile.txt" Here is the another way to do the same: >> "C:\myfile.txt" ECHO "this is a test" From a batch-script this also work, but I don't know if it does it from DOS ??!!

copy con filename.txt This will be in my text file ^Z Control (^)-Z ends the session. Everything you typed after the copy command was executed up to the CTRL-Z will be in the file: filename.txt

Doug, Sondre said "hopefully at the end of the document". It seems to me that he wants to append the string, leaving what's already on the file there. Sondre, on Dougs example, as he said, everything you type will be on the file, but nothing more. If anything else was there, it will be erased. -- Leonardo Pignataro - Secret_Doom -- secret_doom@hotmail.com www.batch.hpg.com.br

How about using the built-in DOS editor? At the DOS prompt, type the following: edit blahblah.txt. The text file will be displayed ready for editing.