Printing from the MS DOS box

[rioters block]

When I was much younger, my dad tried to show my how to use dos to search for things on the computer but in vain. Back then the computer meant cool things like Math/Reading Rabbit (anybody else heard of them?). What I'm saying is that I have no idea really how to use dos at all. So, what I'd like to know is, since I'm programming on Windows XP, how would I print a program I've just run on there directly from dos box? I'd like to put these comands for printing right into the code for my C++ homework assignments so that I don't have to print using the school computers.

[BlaineSch]

Direct the output to a file.

ping 127.0.0.1 > ping.txt