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re: Question about 'Print Out a Directory Listing'
Sunday, October 28, 2001 at 12:24 pm
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Posted by Curt R (1315 messages posted)


I just looked that over......it seems pretty complicated. As an alternative, you could open a DOS window and do a dir command and redirect it to a text file which you could later print. Of course, due to the DOS filename limitation any filenames over the 8.3 limit would be truncated with the ~1 However, if that's not a problem, here's an example of how to redirect a dir command to a text file:
dir /b > c:\dirlist.txt
This will show you the listing in "bare" format (the /b switch - this shows filenames only) and redirects (the 'greater than' symbol between the /b and 'dirlist.txt') it to a file called "dirlist.txt" on the root of your C: drive. If you did this in a DOS window while running 98, you could then exit the DOS window and open the file with notepad or wordpad and print it.




On Sunday, October 28, 2001 at 12:09 pm, misters wrote:
>I have a question about Print
>Out a Directory Listing
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>My question is simple is this article only related to win/95?


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Question about 'Print Out a Directory Listing' (misters: Sunday, October 28, 2001 at 12:09 pm)

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-Question about 'Print Out a Directory Listing' (misters: Sun, Oct 28, 2001, 12:09 pm)
*re: Question about 'Print Out a Directory Listing' (Curt R: Sun, Oct 28, 2001, 12:24 pm)
*re: Question about 'Print Out a Directory Listing' (carl: Sun, Oct 28, 2001, 2:31 pm)
-re: Question about 'Print Out a Directory Listing' (Dave®: Tue, Nov 20, 2001, 5:50 am)
*re: Question about 'Print Out a Directory Listing' (Pauli: Wed, Jan 30, 2002, 3:35 pm)
*re: Question about 'Print Out a Directory Listing' (traci: Wed, Feb 6, 2002, 2:43 pm)
*re: Question about 'Print Out a Directory Listing' (Alex Goldberg: Thu, Mar 20, 2003, 6:37 am)
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