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Version: 2.6 Platform: Win95,Win98,WinME,WinNT 4.x,WinXP,Windows2000 Price: 19.95 USD [Buy Now] Screenshot: View Screenshot License: Shareware Limitations: Unknown Date: 2001-05-10 Size: 2 Rate: Publisher: WindowsUtilities.com Support: [email protected] Print, display, and browse directory listings with file descriptions DIRlist provides user descriptions of files and subdirectories. It can be difficult to identify a files purpose and content with just the filename, especially when the file is old or shared between users. DIRlist provides free text descriptions to supplement the file name for project documentation, instruction manuals, and general identification of directory contents. Files and subdirectories are displayed with file sizes, dates, and a user description.?DIRlist can navigate from directory to directory propagating subdirectory descriptions in related directories. DIRlist saves the descriptions in an HTML file of each directory accessed by DIRlist.- Help identify files and directories shared by other users- Print, display, and browse directory listings with file descriptions- Used for project documentation, instruction manuals, and directory contents- Document the files and directories to promote identification- Propagates related descriptions by navigating between directories

DIRlist DownloadDIRlist HomeWhatisDIRlist? -DIRlistprints a list of files andsubdirectories within a directory with optional user descriptionsWhyuseDIRlist? -To print alist of files in adirectory. It can be difficult to identify the purpose and content offiles with just the filename, especially when the file is old or sharedby multiple users. DIRlist provides free text descriptions tosupplement the file name for project documentation, instructionmanuals, and general identification of directory contentsHowdo I useDIRlist? -StartDIRlist with: Start |Programs | DIRlistClick the "Open Dir" button to browse to a directory. Files areinitially displayed in file name order alphabetically. The display canbe resorted by clicking on a column title. Select option boxes toinclude display of directories, file extensions, file sizes, filedates, and files with or without a description. The description of afile is entered by clicking on the cell "Description" of the file. Youcan change directories by clicking on a directory name which propagatesthe directory descriptions from the previous directory. The "Print"button prints the displayed files with the selected options. When youexit, DIRlist saves the file name sorted descriptions in the file"index.htm" of the directory of each directory accessed by DIRlist. Theindex set file name can be changed to support multiple descriptions inthe same directory. The resulting index file can be displayed with abrowser (e.g. Internet Explorer); that is, clicking on "index.htm" willlaunch a browser window displaying the file, description and selectedoptions from the last time DIRlist was used in the directory. TheDIRlist functions and options are described below. Print- The "Print" button prints the displayed files,descriptions, and selected options on the default printer. The defaultprinter and printer orientation can be selected from "Printer Setup"under the File menu. The default printer orientation is shown on thePrint button. OpenDir - The"Open Dir"button saves the currentdescriptions and then browses to a new directory. The new directorystarts with a view of the files sorted by file name. Recently useddirectories and set files can also be selected from the File menu. Thecurrent directory and set file is shown on the DIRlist caption. Sortby - Clickon any ofthe column titles tosort the display by that column. The sorted column title is in bold.A second click on the same title reverses the order of the sort andunderlines the title to indicate that the sort is in descending order. Editdescription- Click ona cell in the"Description" column to enter or edit a file description. You can moveup and down through the description cells by using the up/down arrowkeys. The Enter or arrow key completes a description and the Esc keyquits a description without making a change. RunFile - Clickon filename in the "Run File"column to launch the file (or change the directory). For example, ifyou click on MyData.xls, then Excel will be started in a

Description The DirList Lua function returns a table of files at a specified path. The returned list can be filtered using an optional filter argument.Arguments String: The desired path in a string format. String (optional): The optional filter string. The * can be used as a wildcard in the string. See the example below.Return Table:The returned table has elements of other tables. Each of these table elements has the following keys: name: The name of the file. The value of name is returned as a string. size: The size of the file in bytes. The value of size is returned as a number. time: The timestamp for the file. The value of time is returned as a number. ExampleThis example prints the show files in the showfile directory. It uses the .Luareturn function () local path = GetPath(Enums.PathType.Showfiles) local filter = "*show" local returnTable = DirList(path, filter) for _, value in pairs(returnTable) do Printf(value['name'] .. " - Size: " .. value['size'] .. " bytes - Time: " .. os.date("%c", value['time'])) endend

New window andloaded with MyData.xls. DIRlist will continue to run in aseparate window. Directorynavigation and propagation of descriptions -Click on a bolded directory in the "Run File" columnto navigate DIRlist to the selected directory. Clicking ".."navigates to the parent directory. Directory navigation with DIRlistcarries the descriptions of related directories to the new directory.For example, suppose the current directory is Sept,which has the description "Sales for Sept 2000"; the parent directoryis 2000 with the description "Sales for 2000"; and asubdirectory Chuck has the description "Chuck's Salesfor Sept 2000". Then clicking on Chuck will carry"Sales for Sept 2000" into the parent ".."description, and "Chuck's Sales for Sept 2000" into the current "."description. Or, clicking on ".." will carry "Salesfor 2000" into the current "." description and "Salesfor Sept 2000" into the Sept subdirectorydescription. Note, descriptions are only propagated by DIRlistnavigation when the new directory does not already have a descriptionfor the related directory. IncludeExt -Include the fileextension in the "Ext"column. The Ext column enables sorting by extension and is not saved orprinted since the extension is already included in the file name. IncludeSize -Include the filelength (bytes) in the"Size" column. IncludeDate -Include the filedate and time in the"Date...Time" column. IncludeDirectories- Includesubdirectories in thedisplay. The current directory has an alias name of "." and theparent directory has an alias name of ".." Directories are boldedin the filename list and are indicated as "DIR" in the Size column. IncludeNull Desc -Include allfiles and directoriesin the display even if they do not have an associated description. Thisoption can be used to select the scope of the display and the Printfunction. The saved index file only includes files and directories thathave descriptions unless the "Include Null Desc" option is checked. Filter- This optionfilters thedisplay files with thefile model shown in the "Filter" text box. The default model for allfiles, is indicated by "*.*". The "Filter" option selects the scope ofdisplay, print, and save set functions. The "Filter" option onlyfilters files and directories when the "Filter" box is checked. Newset -DIRlist savesdirectory descriptions ina set name htm file in each directory. The default set name is "index"so the default htm file is "index.htm". The file name can be changed inthe "new set" text field. Different descriptions from multiple projectsor users can be saved with different set names. A "new set" is startedwhen the "new set" button is clicked. The "new set" starts with thedescriptions of the previous set. You can switch to a previous set with"Open Dir" or click a recently used file under the file menu. Menu- DIRlist has the following menus and submenus File: Open Dir;PrintPortrait; PrintLandscape; Print Setup; Exit; recently used directories Help: How toUse; About The display columns areauto-sized for the expectedview. However,