look at this would you please

[bobheart]

The top line I hav commented out works with the drive letter in it . but i want to be able to put the drice letter in and it won't work ? what do I have wrong ?

;;RunWait(@COMSPEC & " /c Dir C:\  > dir.txt")
$answer = InputBox("Question", "Enter drive  letter below ", "what dir", "", -1,-1, 30, 30)
$str = @Comspec & " /k Dir """ & @ScriptDir &" " & $answer & " > dir.txt"
Run($str)
Runwait("notepad.exe "&@Scriptdir&"\dir.txt",@WindowsDir,)

if you have the time .

[cowsmanaut]

$drive = inputbox ("Drive letter", "Enter drive letter with quotes", "", "")

runwait (@comspec & " /k dir " & $drive & "  > dir.txt"  )

this seems to work..

[bobheart]

Well thank you for the help .. I see what you did but all have to look more and try to understand it .

[cowsmanaut]

it's more or less the same as what you did. However, I cut out a lot of the extra stuff. To keep it a little more simplified.

with the input box I just used the defaults by not providing extra variables

for the actual command.. rather than attaching it to a variable I just went straight ahead and performed it.

It's often better to find the most straight forward method of executing your tasks.

the less lines you need to look at the less work you need to do to update or fix your scripts in the end.

moo