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A Sight Better Than TREE
(PC Magazine Vol 4 No 22 October 29, 1985 by C. Petzold)
A well-designed system of tree-structured directories is
essential for organizing the multitude of files that accumulate on
a hard disk. If you've ever tried TREE, you know that while it
provides the information about subdirectory organization, it flunks
in the visual representation department. It doesn't even make use of
the line graphic characters to show the various branches and levels.
VTREE -- the Visual TREE command -- displays how subdirectories
are organized. The VTREE command is as easy to use as the DOS TREE
command. It has one optional parameter. The syntax of VTREE is:
VTREE [d:]
where d: is an optional drive specification. VTREE does not support
the /F parameter available with the TREE command to list files along
with subdirectories.
VTREE displays up to four directory levels without difficulty,
and even a fifth if the directory names on that level do not exceed
eight characters. Deeper levels will wrap around (the display limit
is 80 characters) and will therefore be difficult to read.
You can get a print of the VTREE output by just redirecting to
the printer with the command: VTREE > PRN. However, unless your
printer can print the extended character set of the IBM PC, you'll
see something else instead of the line characters. (The solution to
this, of course, is to use the PRSWAP.COM program which appeard in
Volume 4 Number 19.)