re: Question about 'Print Out a Directory Listing'
Friday, April 25, 2008 at 9:06 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ricer46
(22026 messages posted)
Reallistically, there are very few people interested in doing this. Why print out
something that is readily available at the touch of a few keystrokes?
On Friday, April 25, 2008 at 8:24 am, TommyBoyz8 wrote:
>I have a question about Print
>Out a Directory Listing:
>
>
>Actually, I have a better answer than using your printer.
>You will use the same command, but not to the LPT port in order to get a nicely
alpha-sorted
>text file. This works best if you understand the most simple of DOS commands.
>
>Go to Start>Run> and type COMMAND and hit the Enter key.
>Using the CD command, change directories to the directory you want to create the
>listing for.
>
>Once in the DOS listing of that directory, type the following line to create your
>neat little text file:
>
>dir /s /on /b >Dir_List.txt
>
>For "Dir_List.txt" you can use any name you want as long as it's 8 characters or
>less. and you still have to use the .txt file extension.
>
>For ease I created a batch file to automatically do this right from the windows
directory.
>
>If anyone thinks creating a directory listing list this is hard, let alone annoying,
>they could have found the resources on the internet with a single google search,
>and the answer is within the first three entries.
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