Internal Commands not Recognized with Schedule Service in Windows NT 4.0

   AT 10:00 "dir > c:\logfile.txt"

   Added a new job with job ID = 0
				

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In Windows NT 4.0, the Schedule service no longer understands internal commands as it did in Windows NT 3.51. The Schedule service in Windows NT 4.0, writes a confirmation that the job has been scheduled to the log file. To redirect output of internal commands to a text file, create a batch job and schedule the batch job using the "cmd /c" switch. Modifying the previous example, you would type:
AT 10:00 cmd /c c:\batchfile.bat

where the contents of batchfile.bat are:

  Dir > c:\logfile.txt

The resulting contents of c:\logfile.txt would be a directory listing of the current directory.