Dir list and windows xp

Category: Geeks r Us

Post 1 by KC8PNL (The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better.) on Friday, 17-Jun-2005 11:25:17

I'm trying to copy tha names of all of the files in a given directory so that I can post them somewhere and have attempted to use dir list to do this. The problem is that once I have extracted the 2 files in the download to c:windowssendTo, the option to do this is no where to be found in the send to sub menue. Is there a different procedure with windows xp versus the older windows platforms? Am I doing something wrong? Any help would greatly be apreciated!

Post 2 by sugarbaby (The voice of reason) on Friday, 17-Jun-2005 11:27:59

are you trying to copy the actual files? if so you can use windows explorer to do this...

Post 3 by KC8PNL (The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better.) on Friday, 17-Jun-2005 11:33:50

No, I'm trying to copy the names of the files. With this dir list utility, it creates a text file in the directory which contains a list of all files present in that directory.

Post 4 by wildebrew (We promised the world we'd tame it, what were we hoping for?) on Friday, 17-Jun-2005 11:51:33

Well if nothing else you can use dos to do this and redirect the output of the dir command into a file like this
dir > DirListResults.txt
It's a round about way but it works pretty good.
Cheers
-B

Post 5 by sjtaylor (I can't call it a day til I enter the zone BBS) on Friday, 17-Jun-2005 22:45:22

in windows xp the path is c:documents and settingsyour profilesendto