Printing a directory

[win2kuser]

Hi everyone.

I am trying to print the contents of my 'My Documents' folder, is there a way I can do it so it prints like it looks on the screen. i.e. full details, time date, size etc. and in the order I want it i.e. by date as apposed to by alphabetical.

I have tried printing from the command prompt -

dir *.* >prn

But nothing worked. - Using a USB printer (epson photo890) so not plugged into LPT port.

Using Windows 2000.

Any help greatly appreciated.

[lynchmob]

I've used Printfolder 1.2 (freeware ver.) to just print the contents of a directory.It works but,as I recall, the old version had a bug that caused all the modification dates to be the same.They may have fixed it.
It did what I wanted it to do: print out a list of MP3s.
HTH
lynch

[Omardeth]

can't you open the folder then hit print screen save it and open that up and then print?

[VHockey86]

To sort the files by date simply click on the header at the top of the list with "date" printed on it. I'm not sure how to print something like this as text, but you could always take screen shots (print screen button) and then paste them into a photoeditor and crop the extra junk off.

[win2kuser]

OK, thanks guys.

I tried the Print Folder utility, it's a great little progy and works fine, but will only print alphabetically.

When I hit the Print Screen Button, the cursor changes to a little hour glass simble momentarily, but then nothing else happens, does is just save it somewhere, if so any idea where?

Would it be better to download a screen capture utility of some kind? There is one on that No-Nonsense site.

Thanks again...

[muno]

It goes to your clipboard, you need to open some image editor (paint will do just fine, photoedit will be better), paste it there and then print it.
-M

[win2kuser]

Ah, that would be it then - I knew it would be something simple

I actually downloaded Screen Grab1.0 which will capture just the active window rather than the entire screen.

You would have thought Micro$oft would have included some form of folder print, but never mind.

Thanks to you all for your help.

[muno]

Alt-PrintScreen will capture active window, PrintScreen will capture entire desktop.
-M

[nukes]

Why don't you just do dir > file
then open "file" in notepad and print it?

[muno]

If you want to do it that way, you need to set some switches for dir.

Like this->
dir /OD *.* >> listing.txt

/OD will sort the files by date.
-M