.bat files in WinXP

I am transferring files from a Win98 PC to a WinXP Pc.
I have a simple .bat file that in Win98 creates a .txt file on the Desktop with a list of files in a folder. But it is not working in WinXP.
Is this because .bat files do not work in WinXP? Or because I have messed something up?
P.S. The text of the .bat file is
dir %1>C:\Program Files\Desktop\jim.txt

cls

where C:\Program Files is the location of the .bat file.

 

Is it not just the fact that it's not valid to use a space like that ?
If there is a space in the command it should be enclosed in quotes like:

dir %1> "C:\Program Files\Desktop\jim.txt "

 

Hi Jim...

To get to the Desktop you must use the "Documents and Settings\<username>\Desktop\jim.txt "

So the string should look something like => dir %1> "C:\Docume~1\<username>\Desktop\Jim.txt " or dir %1> "C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Desktop\Jim.txt "

This is what I get when I use the following in a kent.bat file that I put in the root of C: Drive => dir %1> "C:\Documents and Settings\Kent\Desktop\Kent.txt "
Volume in drive C is Local Disk
Volume Serial Number is xxxx-xxxxx

Directory of C:\

10/16/2003 10:44 PM 0 AUTOEXEC.BAT
07/31/2004 09:41 AM 270,213 BOC411.XVU
07/06/2004 12:42 AM 62,501 BOClist.txt
06/27/2004 12:26 AM 0 BOreport.txt
06/13/2004 03:51 PM <DIR> CD_Burn
10/16/2003 10:44 PM 0 CONFIG.SYS
08/01/2004 11:36 PM 0 documents
06/13/2004 01:29 PM <DIR> Documents and Settings
07/12/2004 02:00 AM <DIR> Downloads
07/12/2004 11:47 PM 560 hpfr5550.xml
07/12/2004 11:47 PM 10,753 hph7150.log
08/01/2004 11:44 PM 72 kent.bat
05/08/2004 08:05 PM <DIR> PerfLogs
08/01/2004 11:30 PM <DIR> Program Files
06/28/2004 05:18 PM 6,116 sysinfo.txt
07/02/2004 05:35 PM <DIR> temp
08/01/2004 04:55 PM <DIR> WINDOWS
10 File(s) 350,215 bytes
9 Dir(s) 11,723,313,152 bytes free

 

Hi Jim...

One more thing, if you use the /s switch you will get all the subfolders...

dir /a /o:nsedg /s %1> "C:\Documents and Settings\Kent\Desktop\Kent.txt "

I now have a 3.5 mb txt file with a complete dir listing...

 

The pathing tips are valid above but it is only necessary to enclose folder/file names with embedded spaces or decimal points in quotes, for example:

C:\ "Documents and Settings "\Administrator\ "Start Menu "\

or for a complete line

D:\Mailbox\ "mercury.planet "\dilbert\*.* I:\ "%1 "\ "%2 "\Mailbox\ "mercury.planet "\dilbert\

In this last example the %1 and %2 represent parameters fed to the batch file when it is invoked.

Basically batch files continue to behave much as they have always done, albeit with a few improvements in the operation of the Command Prompt.

 

Thanks to all. I am pretty sure that the real solution was to use the quotation marks. (But I probably also had messed up the location in the transfer process, so I also changed that as suggested.)
Works fine now.
Thanks for putting up with me as I learn XP.