RE: Looking for a directory mapping tool

["Spreadbury, David" <david -dot- spreadbury -at- tellabs -dot- com>]

You could use the old DOS dir command to output the directory structure,
with all included files, to a text file and then import this into Excel.
You might need to do a little editing on a text editor to organize the
data, e.g., add tabs to create a tab-delimited file which would import
cleaner and save work on the Excel side.

Open a command window and try entering:

c:
cd workingfiles
Dir c:\workingfiles /o /s > workingfiles.txt 

The price is right - free.

-----Original Message-----
From: bounce-techwr-l-195991 -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
[mailto:bounce-techwr-l-195991 -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com] On Behalf Of Susan
Guttman
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 8:18 AM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: Looking for a directory mapping tool



Hi all;

I'm sure what I'm looking for exists, but have no idea where to find it.

We have a couple of fairly large TW-specific directories here,
containing tutorials and procedures and document templates and project
documentation and project management templates and a few kitchen sinks.
The only person who
*really* knows the contents of the directories and their uses is leaving
in a week (of the remaining writers, two of us have been here less than
two months and the other never really had to learn much beyond what they
needed at a given moment).

I want to map out the contents of the directory so that we can all go
over them with the departing font o' knowledge before her departure, and
I was hoping to find a tool that could map out a directory structure and
files and export that information to Excel or the equivalent (CSV output
or somesuch).
I could then use the Excel file to record the location and function of
each file for posterity, i.e. me and the other writers.

A tool this useful must already be out there. Can anybody point me in
the right direction?


Many thanks in advance, 

Bill S. Guttman
TW Monkey 
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