Creating a filelist out of a DOS directory listing:

Note: this is now obsolete because list generation is done automatically by the script. (Go to filelist creation) Anyway, you may want to do it by hand, so here follows the description:

For any type of file, you can use the DOS command input:

• run the DOS prompt (Start => Programs => MS-DOS Prompt)
• change to the desired drive and directory (examples of useful commands):

c:  (change to c:)
cd dirname   (change directory)
cd..   (move one dir downwards)
• run the dir command and let write the output to a text file:

dir *.* /s /on > files.txt   (makes a file of all filenames in this dir and its subdirs, names ordered)
dir *.mp3 /s /on > files.txt   (makes a file with only the mp3 filenames)
Note: the file extension has to be TXT for the script to recognize it.
See Screenshot
• Before you klick the "create list files" button on the fileshare panel you must set the basefiledir variable. See settings (most times this will be the directory name which you made your dir listing of). If the dir list does not work for any reason, please send the list to me, may be it has some other format that is currently not recognized by the script.

You also have to set the listfile variable. See how to do this
• type in the PIRCH input line: /runscript [fileshare] reset (if it doesn't work, type /compile [fileshare] first).
• A window labelled "Fileshare Monitor" should appear. (if not, check if the script is installed properly in the aliases section)
• Klick the button Create list files... , then Other Listfile. A file selector window pops up.
NOTE: Your nick should now be the one you intend to use when the script is active.
• Select the "mother" filelist you have made in the above step. Screenshot
• See a line counter count upwards. When finished there appears something like this in the "Actions" field:

30.03.99 02:00:07  new list files generated
list files generation complete, number of files: 351,1477 MegaBytes total
paths list: D:\Programme\pirch98\fileshare\paths.txt
send list: D:\Programme\pirch98\fileshare\SCHNECK_FILELIST.txt
plain list: D:\Programme\pirch98\fileshare\filelist.txt
As you can see, there were three text files generated. These can be viewed with any text editor. More about the files

Creating a filelist when files are spread over several drives / directories:

Note: this is now obsolete because list generation is done automatically by the script. Go to filelist creation Anyway, you may want to do it by hand, so here follows the description:

This is quite easy... use the DOS DIR method to make separate listings and then connect them.
example:

Let's have our desired files in three directories:
all JPG files in c:\ and subdirs
all MP3 files in d:\tori_amos\
all MP3 files in d:\mp3\ and its subdirs

Now we run the DOS prompt (Start => Programs => MS-DOS Prompt), make DIR lists and connect them to one file:
c:   (change drive)
cd\   (go to root directory; note: these steps are not essentially necessary, depends upon where you want your listfile finally to be)
dir *.jpg /s /on > Cjpeg.txt   (make dir listing of all jpg files in c: and write it to Cjpg.txt; /s = include subdirectories, /on = order by name)
dir d:\tori_amos\*.mp3 /on > ToriMp3.txt   (make dir listing of d:\tori_amos\ and write to ToriMp3.txt)
dir d:\mp3\*.mp3 /s /on > Mp3.txt   (make dir listing of all .mp3 files in d:\mp3, including subdirs and write it to Mp3.txt)
copy Cjpg.txt + ToriMp3.txt + Mp3.txt allfiles.txt  (copy all three files to one file named allfiles.txt)
example screenshot

Now we set the basefiledir variable to "empty" ( basefiledir= ) because our files do not have a common root. See settings

That's all!

MS-DOS prompt: how to make a filelist
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Make a filelist from different drives:
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...choosing the file with the selector
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