How do you print the contents of a folder?

[Liam]

Hello there,

I have folders full of mp3's that I wish to print out. I want to print the song title and band the way it appears in the folder.
The only problem is that a folder dosen't have a "print" opton.
So the choice is to get a screen capture prog. or what else?
All I want to do is keep track on paper what mp3's I have. I like to transfer my mp3's to cd as I have a small hd, so if I download a song I want to know if I have it already.

Thanks Liam

[Liam]

Ok, Guys thank you kindly for you help, the winmag prog. seems fairly easy to use.
Take care Liam

[BFlurie]

There're programs like Directory Printer from Winmag.com. But it can be done more simply w/good 'ol DOS. You can create a small .bat file w/the following commands:

@echo off
rem Directory Lister -- puts a text folder listing in c:\windows\temp
dir/-w/o/a/s/-p/-b %1 > "c:\windows\temp\Dir Listing"
move "c:\windows\temp\Dir Listing" c:\windows\temp\Dirlist.txt
exit

Name & move this .bat file anything and anywhere. Then r-click it & hold, and drag it over the c:\windows\sendto folder & release. Choose "Create Shortcut". Then just r-click any folder you want in Explorer, choose "Send To" & send to the .bat file shortcut. Viola. You've got a directory list file in c:\windows\temp.
This probably won't give you exactly what you want, but using "Find & Replace" in your text editor can quickly give you a "bare" list. Then just print it from there. I don't remember if the regular Windoz "Notepad" has that or not -- I've replaced that. Experiment with removing the (-) minuses above in front of w,s, and b for different text looks. Or just get the Directory Printer program.

Also, using the same technique, you can send a SINGLE file to the printer via "Send To" w/ this small .bat file --

@echo off
rem File printer -- prints a single file
copy "%1" /b lpt1:
exit

DOS is powerful, so don't send anything other than a single "printable" file to the printer or you'll be printing for days!

[This message has been edited by BFlurie (edited 08-19-2000).]

[OuTpaTienT]

BF, why do ya go through all that?

Just do this in DOS (or make a batch file):

dir /s /b /o:gn > dir.txt

[BFlurie]

OuT, you're right. But what I showed can all be done from Windoz. And w/the "Send To" method, the Move command is necessary -- otherwise messing with the different "switches" in the .bat file (changing pluses & minuses) will sometimes just make a blank text file -- not sure why (W95).

[OuTpaTienT]

For a Notepad replacement that'll do "search & replace" and many other features, I suggest METAPAD.
http://welcome.to/metapad/

[OuTpaTienT]

lol! See BF. I think you scared him away from DOS with all that jibberish. Probably would've scared me too.

Oh well, the less people that know DOS, the more valuable people like us are (until DOS is completely gone.)

[BFlurie]

Yea, OuT, some of the "old" guys @ Winmag.com are pretty pissed off about Microsh*t dumping DOS. We're not supposed to be entering low-level commands on our boxes!

[shadow]

Liam, the Aprint program works great, very easy and now I have a list of all my MP3's on cd's. Thanks for the tip!
Now to get rid of that trial period thing http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif