I/O redirecting in windows shell

[hogolo01]

Hi,

I want to redirect a file to my application. in this file are my command line arguments.

I want to do something like this:
"dir < arguments.txt"
content of my arguments.txt is in this example just "/D"

in my opinion executing the command "dir < arguments.txt" should be equal to "dir /D"

but it's not. why?

thanks
juergen