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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.)