Ha, ha, ha, hee, hee, hee, lol, fal, whatever.... I'm killing myself laughing, that's what I'm trying to say.

I just googled for print a directory listing and discovered a link to a Microsoft Tech page on how to make a directory listing from WinXP. You know what they said? They said take a screen shot and print the image!!

That's a joke, guys, if you don't realise it then let me tell you. That's a joke. That's the funniest thing. That's ridiculous, that's why it's a joke.

But then it makes you think and it gets even funnier - after all this time, all these incarnations of Windows, all the billions of dollars spent, and you still can't make a directory/file listing and print it out.

and you still can't easily display files of one type in a directory ('folder' for those recently born).

and you can't easily pipe output from one into another.

and you can't readily edit text files, or search them, or anything....

What you can do is go to DOS. Not 'drop to DOS' because XP is no longer sitting ontop of a DOS kernel. Or I don't think it is. But go to DOS because they have included a DOS engine in WinXP.

Go to DOS and there at that crude command line interface you'll find powers and abilities that will leave you gasping. If you've got the ability to find them, use them, understand them.

And you'll find the ability to list and print directories, all the files in a directory and its sub directories, selected types of files, files of a certain age.... on and on.... abilities you haven't even dreamt of.

And they're all twenty years old at least. And still haven't been reached by Windows.

Ha, ha,ha,ha.......