remove the rem?

it probably shouldn't redirect at all.
Doubt it is critical

Yes it should not redirect at all. gave me a headake in the script I was writing. so I just removed the > in the rem lines. I dont know if it effects any game's.. but we all know that not everything released is polished.

In my case it caused the creation of flag files that effected the way XcomUtil functions. the lines were commented out due to a bug in XcomUtRt that have not gotten to yet, REM usual is all that is needed but in DosBox's case i had to remove the >
No biggy now I know what do to.

-Blade FireLight

I just tried this under Win98 DOS through qemu and surprisingly enough it creates a zero byte file, so it looks like DOSBox is correctly emulating real DOS.