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Old December 7th 17, 12:08 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
J. P. Gilliver (John)[_4_]
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In message , R.Wieser
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John, OP,

Yes, I was going to suggest DIR as well. But I think he wants
only the tree, not the files.


You mean like you get with "DIR /ad /s /b" ?


Excellent! Thanks for that.

If it would be me I would suggest the OP to use exactly that, instead of
that graphical tree representation.


And people with this sort of mindset (which includes me) would probably
also like RED (remove empty directories) from
http://www.jonasjohn.de/red.htm - like registry cleaners, there are
potential problems, and no actual advantages, but those of us who like
to be able to see the wood for the trees find it appealing.
(Unfortunately it says XP on only, but it might still be useful to the
OP when he has the drive on his XP machine.)

Being able to just copy-and-paste a certain line from such a file into the
filebrowser to get at a certain directory (read: not having to traverse the
graphical tree while doing the same in the filebrowser, which is prone to
mistakes) is a big pre for me.


Good point.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


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