Re: Print DIR list to ProDOS disk?

[tturner@ecn.ab.ca ()]

Scott Alfter (salfter@salfter.dyndns.org) wrote:
: In article <tTL38.1884$On3.42502@localhost>,  <tturner@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:
: >--> Title sez it all, really: I'm going through some diskettes for
: >    someone and they need to know what the file names are (obviously
: >    they can't read the diskettes).  I can _SEE_ the listing, but I've
: >    not found anything off-hand that can then print this listing to
: >    diskette (as a TXT-file), so I can send it to them so they, too
: >    can see what's on those diskettes.  Anyone know any 8-bit A2
: >    software tool that can do this?  Much appreciated...

: A throwaway BASIC program ought to do the job to dump a list of files on one
: disk to a file on another disk:

: 10 PRINT CHR$(4);"OPEN LIST,S6,D1":PRINT CHR$(4);"WRITE LIST":
:    PRINT CHR$(4);"CATALOG,S6,D2":PRINT CHR$(4);"CLOSE LIST"

: Change the slot/drive numbers as appropriate.  It's also worth noting that
: this will only get the root directory of the disk; BASIC.SYSTEM has nothing
: like ls -lR.
<snip>

--> I was hoping for a `pre-made' utility, but a BASIC proggy like
    the one you so kindly noted, is admittedly EZ 2 do.  However,
    many of the diskettes in question, have the file in sub-directories
    and if I read your comments and the BASIC syntax you noted, correctly;
    this will not do the trick for me.  I'll try it, though.  Maybe I can
    modify it and run it from within the sub-directory.  Again, thanks.

    I'll still keep looking for other approaches, in the mean time...

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