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Donald Erickson (erickson@csnsys.com) wrote:

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: There is no problem creating the database once I can get the 
: list of files into a data file itself.  Is there a simple 
: way to redirect the output of the command DIR into a file?
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: Thanks for your help.
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: Donald Erickson
: erickson@csnsys.com
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    dir > fname.txt    (change fname.txt to the name desired)

  This creates an ascii file.

Dear Donald,

Your question is one that is easily answerred. The most basic option to redirect the output of 
the DIR-command to a file is with the DOS redirect operators.

Use the following command : dir <start of tree> /s > <filename for log>
start of tree is the directory under which all the gif0files are located.
filename for log is the place and name for the logfile.
The /s option makes DOS recurse into all subdirectories.
(this works for DOS-versions 5.0 and higher)

There are other ways to do this but they are more complex.

Erik van Keimpema
Email: erik.keimpevankeimpema@icim.nl

Donald Erickson (erickson@csnsys.com) wrote:

> I'm working with approximately 10,000 JPG and GIF files on a 
> 1.2G hard drive as well as thousands more on floppies.  In 
> order to keep the quantity of filenames in a particular 
> subdirectory under 1000 (the apparent limit of my version of 
> PC TOOLS for some operations), I've separated them into 
> subdirectories based on the first letter of the filename.
>  
> So that I can avoid downloading duplicate and reposted 
> files, I'd like to maintain the filenames along with size, 
> date, and time in a database using Alpha 4 V. 4.
>  
> There is no problem creating the database once I can get the 
> list of files into a data file itself.  Is there a simple 
> way to redirect the output of the command DIR into a file?
> Or should I look to one of the shareware catalog programs to 
> provide what I'm looking for?  
> Thanks for your help.

Well you can use my BRiNDYS CAT utility (already available as
as shareware program :)
Just a simple   

 dir *.jpg   >redirect.txt

will put in a text file all your directory, but using CAT:

 cat /E:g  >redirect.txt

will give you extra information, as the size, colors, and title of
the program used to create each image. The /E:G parameter tells the
program to only list Graphic files.
Or if you want to avoid having duplicated files, use:

 cat  /E:G  /C  /O:s

And you will get a warning for every duplicated file in the directory
(don't trust on date/time checking schemes, as many files with the same
length and contents can easily have different dates).
The /C uses the CRC-32 redundancy check to compare all files, and the /O:S
sorts the listing as DIR does.

Take a copy of CAT from:

http://www.fiv.upv.es/alumnos/a2917347/cat_e.html
ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/win3/diskfile/bscat260.zip
ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/dirutil/bscat260.zip
ftp://ftp.zetnet.co.uk/pub/fido/rar/BSCAT25E.RAR
or use archie with "bscat" to get a mirrored file near you.

Hope it helps.

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