[Athen] simple question

Prof Norm Coombs norm.coombs at gmail.com
Thu Oct 16 16:25:40 PDT 2008


George:

Yes. Good old DOS. I didn't even think of it. Used to do that all the time.
At 08:37 PM 10/13/2008, you wrote:

>Norm,

>

>1. Open a command prompt in the folder you want to print out.

>2. type: dir/b >filename

>The /b means bare, without date size etc, just the file name. The >(greater

>sign) is a direct to a file, which will get created.

>

>3. Do this in the other folder and you can compare the two files.

>

>Hope that works.

>

> >From the old DOS days, grin!

>

>Best

>George

>

>

>

>

> > -----Original Message-----

> > From: athen-bounces at athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org] On

> > Behalf Of Prof Norm Coombs

> > Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 9:00 PM

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> > Subject: [Athen] simple question

> >

> > I have 2 directories in which many of the items are identical. I'd

> > like to

> > print off a hard copy of the listing of each directory on 2 sheets of

> > hard

> > copy paper and then match them side by side.

> >

> > How can I print a hard copy of the list of file names in a directory?

> > Norm

> >

> >

> >

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Norman Coombs norm.coombs at gmail.com
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