How to save the 'list of contents' of a folder?

Back when DOS was king, it was a simple task to print or to save to a file the contents of a subdirectory, a.k.a. folder. All you had to do was to issue the command DIR>PRN to have it printed, or DIR>LIST.TXT to have the list of files and folders saved to file LIST.TXT.

This was great when it was necessary to document the files in a folder, or to sort them, etc. as the saved file could be opened with XL, and the sky was the limit.

I still use DOS to these tasks, but wondered...

Is there a way, using just Windows (2000, ME, XP,...), to print* or to save to a file the 'list of contents' of a folder?

(*) [Alt-PrintScreen] and paste to a Word doument for printing is not what I am looking for...

Thanks!

Alex

 

PrintFolder

Have a look at a useful tool, PrintFolder 1.2

HTH

 

Thank You!
That will work nicely. (Too bad that Win doesn't include such a utility.)
Alex

 

Ingeniero1 - piping things to a file from a command line prompt still works fine with Nt4/2K/XP/2K3. Not sure about piping to a printer since I haven't used a local printer for a while. And the DIR command now has lots of nice new features you probably wished for with earlier versions.

A thought if you like to run things this way is that you may be starting the wrong DOS window.

start~run~command will open an old-style 16 bit session that was kept for compatibility with a few older programs and behaves like a 16 bit app (Yuck!!).

start~run~cmd will start a 32 bit app that you would like lots better.

So

Dir > c:\stuff.txt should give you the results you want and
Dir >> c:\stuff.txt will append rather than over-write just like in the olden days.