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re: Question about 'Print Out a Directory Listing'
Sunday, December 23, 2001 at 3:18 pm
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Posted by Paul D (827 messages posted)


There are many apps around that will do this far better than that half-baked solution, which gives very untidy output. Here's one:-

Karen Kenworthy's Directory Printer


Paul D





On Sunday, December 23, 2001 at 11:06 am, Robert Kruger wrote:
>I have a question about Print
>Out a Directory Listing
:


>
>The directory that is being printed is not the target directory. For example I would
>have expected that if I right click on the System folder in the Windows directory
>and pull down to Print that I would have a printout of the contents of the System
>directory, instead I get a print of the Windows directory. I believe this has to
>do with the line CD %1 (which by the way is unneccessary the batch file can be just
>DIR .\%1 >LPT1). I don't know how win98 runs their arguments for batch files with
>right click runs.
>My half-baked fix for myself was to alter the properties of PRINTDIR.BAT so that
>it has a command key of CTRL+F12 so that way I can print any directory from inside
>it with that keystroke.


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