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From: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Recursive directory lister for PC wanted
Summary: Sweep dir also does the trick
Message-ID: <552@chyde.uwasa.fi>
Date: 2 Jun 89 15:15:41 GMT
References: <8905302127.AA02568@galaxy.compass.com> <550@chyde.uwasa.fi> <2031@csuna.csun.edu>
Reply-To: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK)
Organization: U of Vaasa, Finland
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In article <2031@csuna.csun.edu> abcscnge@csuna.csun.edu (Scott Neugroschl) writes:
>In article <550@chyde.uwasa.fi> ts@chyde.uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK) writes:
>}In article <8905302127.AA02568@galaxy.compass.com> worley@compass.com (Dale Worley) writes:
>}>Is there a program out there which will give a hard copy listing of
>}>everything on an MS-DOS disk?  (like ls -r in Unix)  Somebody *must*
>}>have one of these!
>}There was a good (Turbo Pascal) article exactly about this problem
>}in PC World, April 1989.

>At the risk of being obvious:
>	CHKDSK/V
>This can be redirected to a printer for hardcopy if desired...

A good solution, and there are still others as well.  One simple way
is using SWEEP DIR > PRN in the main directory.  (Sweep is a
well-known utility for doing ms-dos commands recursively, like the
notoriously efficient defragmenter sweep del *.* :-)

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Prof. Timo Salmi
School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland
Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: vakk::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun