Printing disc or folder contents

[Meg]

How can I print the contents of a disc or folder -- I
used to be able to do this easily in the old DOS days.
How is it done now??? Help!

[Rob Schneider]

Meg wrote:

> How can I print the contents of a disc or folder -- I
> used to be able to do this easily in the old DOS days.
> How is it done now??? Help!

Do it the same as you did it on the DOS days ... use the "dir" command
available on the "command prompt" box. absolutely nothing wrong with
that approach.

If you direct output directly to the printer, it will print. Or, more
easy perhaps to descript, direct to a file, then use notepad to print, e.g.

dir > dir.txt

will put the directory into the file dir.txt

[ram]

You can still do it with XP.
1. Click Start-Run.
2. Type cmd and click Ok
3. Change to the folder you want to print contents.
cd\ C:\MyFolder
where Myfolder is a folder on drive C:
4. Type Dir /S > List.txt
5, Open your Myfolder and print List.txt
For more information on Dir command, type Dir /?
Hope this helps.
-ram

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> How can I print the contents of a disc or folder -- I
> used to be able to do this easily in the old DOS days.
> How is it done now??? Help!

[Ken Blake]

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Meg > typed:

> How can I print the contents of a disc or folder -- I
> used to be able to do this easily in the old DOS days.
> How is it done now??? Help!




Here are three ways:

1. Go to a command prompt and issue the command

dir [drive:folder] > prn

If that doesn't work, your printer may not be connected to prn.
In that case issue this command instead:

dir [drive:folder] > c:\tempfilename (you can use any name and
put it in any folder you want)

Then open notepad, open tempfilename, and print it from there.



2. Go to

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q321379
and follow the instructions there.

3. Download and use any of the several freeware/shareware
utilities that can do this.


--
Ken Blake
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[Kenny]

This'll do it and it's free.
http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptdirprn.asp

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Kenny


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> How can I print the contents of a disc or folder -- I
> used to be able to do this easily in the old DOS days.
> How is it done now??? Help!