Julie, this should do the trick,

     load dsmc query backup dir (CLIB_OPT)/>SYS:ADSM/QBACK.OUT


     W. Ridderhof, Mainland Sequoia

____________________________ Antwoord-separator ________________________________
Onderwerp: Piping results of ADSM command to a file on Netware
Auteur:  "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> in inet-1
Datum:    10/7/98 11:42 AM


I got the HOW-TO from this list a long time ago, but can't find it now...
If I go to the system console on Netware and do a Query Backup command, how
do I pipe the results to a file?
Thanks,
Julie