At 11:56 AM 7/26/01 -0700, you wrote: >If foo writes to stderr as well as stdout, some lines won't get captured to the file (you'll see them scrolling by). If that happens and you want to capture those lines too, try this: > foo &>logfile This one did it. I had tried ">" but it did not capture anything. I did not know about the "&>" to capture stderr. Evidently this program spits everything to stderr. Thanks. Alan - /------------------------------------------ |Alan Dayley www.adtron.com |Software Engineer 602-735-0300 x331 |ADayley@adtron.com | |Adtron Corporation |3710 E. University Drive, Suite 5 |Phoenix, AZ 85034 \-------------------------------------------