$LogFile = "c:\testdir\test.log"

SHELL 'cmd /c @date @time>"$LogFile"'

I've tried variations on this, with date and time concatenated, surrounded by quotes, but I get the error "'2001' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file"

$logFile = "c:\testdir\test.log"
Shell "%comspec% /c echo @DATE @TIME > $logFile"

HTH, Martijn

For win9x/me this is command.com
for XP/W2k/nt this is cmd.exe

All MS operation systems have a environment variable called %comspec% that points to the correct file.

You will want to use the DOS ECHO command for this action.

shell '%comspec% /c echo @date/Time > file.txt'

[ 05 November 2001: Message edited by: Bryce ]

J.

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Martijn

But if you are wanting to have many people write to a file, then using a shelled redirected ">>" ECHO or the INI type output of writeprofilestring() would be the way to go.

also, using the open() command will load the entire document into memory, if the document is small, there will be very little speed difference, but if it is a large file (500m to a gig) then the

ECHO "stuff" >> largefile.txt

would be faster.

Bryce