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Old May 13th 15, 05:45 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Nil[_5_]
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Default Is this possible to do in Windows?

On 13 May 2015, Wildman wrote in
alt.windows7.general:

I don't know of a Linux file manager that has the ability
to directly print a folder listing OOTB. However, most of
the file managers allow for custom actions to be added to the
right-click context menu so that functionality could easily
be added.


....The "custom action" most likely being a script, so you're back at
the command line again. Windows also has this ability, via batch files
or scripts and Explorer's "Send To" context menu option.
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Old May 13th 15, 07:15 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Wildman[_2_]
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On Wed, 13 May 2015 12:45:36 -0400
Nil wrote:

On 13 May 2015, Wildman wrote in
alt.windows7.general:

I don't know of a Linux file manager that has the ability
to directly print a folder listing OOTB. However, most of
the file managers allow for custom actions to be added to the
right-click context menu so that functionality could easily
be added.


...The "custom action" most likely being a script, so you're back at
the command line again.


Not exactly. A single command is executed by the file
manager to carry out the custom action in a similar way
that Windows does it. In either case there is no "command
line". In Linux most of the custom actions are executed
using an external program that was installed as part of
the OS and runs in the background.

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  #33  
Old May 13th 15, 10:14 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Mayayana
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Default Is this possible to do in Windows?

| People who care about these things
| usually learn console commands, learn scripting,
| or find their own collection of little utility programs
| that will do what they want.
|
| yes, this is exactly what I did ages ago, during MS-DOS times, around
1989-
| 1992
|
| I had .BAT files for almost everything

It sounds like you're doing something similar with
Total Commander now. That makes sense to me.
The people who I help with their computers usually
want an email program, AV, a browser and maybe
MS Word. I doubt there's any market among the
general public for function like Edit - Print File List.


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Old May 14th 15, 12:50 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
pjp[_10_]
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Default Is this possible to do in Windows?

In article , am says...

| People who care about these things
| usually learn console commands, learn scripting,
| or find their own collection of little utility programs
| that will do what they want.
|
| yes, this is exactly what I did ages ago, during MS-DOS times, around
1989-
| 1992
|
| I had .BAT files for almost everything

It sounds like you're doing something similar with
Total Commander now. That makes sense to me.
The people who I help with their computers usually
want an email program, AV, a browser and maybe
MS Word. I doubt there's any market among the
general public for function like Edit - Print File List.


Knowing how to use the command line is helpfull though anyone from old
DOS days certainly rememebers

I personally find it usefull for when I burn off mp3s to a dvd. I do a
"dir \temp\l.doc" in the folder before burning. That gives me a
listing of the files/folders I'm about to burn off that I can edit and
reformat as I wish using Word. That file gets saved as part and parcel
of the music collection library's master listing.

I used to always love the look on novices faces back then when you did
something like

for (%i in *.*) if not exist "some path"\%i copy %i "some path"

which would copy only files not in that location but in current location
to that location.

Note been awhile syntax may not be exactly correct
 




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