HOW TO VIEW LONG GEOS TYPE FILENAMES FROM DOS

This tip is from GWRep MK, Ldy Carmen, Coty Rosenbalth, and Jim Schmidt!!!  Thanks guys, this is GREAT!

A great new utility has hit the Geoworks "New Files" Library.  It allows you from DOS to print out the details of GEOS files just like you were in GEOS.. no more trying to guess which 8 character dos filename stands for which geos file or document! The file is called GDIR071B.ZIP. 

To use GDIR071B, unzip and read the docs. Basically you just type GDIR to list files in your current directory or GDIR [pathname] for another directory. Output will look something like this:

homeowne 000    37008   6-15-91  22:04 Homeowner's Newsletter  

As you can see, the DOS filename is printed first, then the file's size, its modification date and time, and finally the GeoWorks extended name for the file.

A companion batch file called GEODIR.ZIP will display one screen at a time so you don't have to try to "catch" it as is scrolls by (similar to a dir/p). After unziping just put the file GEODIR.BAT in the same directory as GDIR.EXE (from GDIR071B.ZIP). To use, type GEODIR <enter> or GEODIR [pathname].

Both of these files are currently located in the "New files" area of the Geoworks library. To get there do Keyword GEOWORKS. Pick Geoworks Library, then new files.

"GEOS Filename LIster" is GDIR071B.ZIP. It is a 1 minute download at 2400 baud.
"Filename Lister Enhancement" is GEODIR.ZIP. It's also a 1 min. download. 
Eventually these files will be moved so if you don't see them in "new files" check User files - shareware & utilities.

A great way to use GDIR to put all this directory info on disk comes from Ldy Carmen:

"What I did was to plug in disk after disk (all files are on floppy disks because of hard disk size constraints, like--no ROOM) and issue GDIR B:*.0* >> GEODISK.TXT.  This appends each new directory into the file GEODISK.TXT, so that when I finish I have a document containing the description of every GEOS file I own, along with which disk those files are on, which I can then print out, or port into GeoWrite and fancy up as much as I want."

GWRepDerek expands on this idea a bit:
He suggests trying a "Gdir *.*|SORT>gdirlist  - where the "|" symbol means route the gdir output through the DOS SORT command (assuming dos is in your path) and ">" means to redirect the resulting output to a file called gdirlist rather than to the screen.  Quite handy if you have a large directory and want to do some maintenance, because you can just print out the list and decide what you want to archive or get rid of."
 
Special thanks to Coty Rosenbalth and Jim Schmidt for writing these handy utilities! 
Try 'um, you'll love 'um! :)