Thanks Steve
I knew it could be done, I just didn't know how and you help. I will say this 
information and get it done.
Gigi

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On Oct 23, 2012, at 9:15 PM, Steve Holmes <[email protected]> wrote:

> This might sound a bit geeky because I'm going to suggest a command to use in 
> Terminal.  So here it goes.
> 
> 1. Go into the Terminal app
> 2. Type cd followed by the name of the folder you want to work in.
> 3. You can verify which folder you're actually in by typing 'pwd' with out 
> the quotes and see the name of the folder it gives back to you.
> 
> 4. Now type 'ls -1 >files.txt' without the quotes.
> This command lists all the files in the current directory or folder with each 
> file name on a separate line.  the ">files.txt" tells the system to redirect 
> the output of the ls command into a file called files.txt.  From here, you 
> can go back to familiar territory
> with the finder and view this file in that folder with any normal text editor.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> On Oct 21, 2012, at 3:09 PM, Eugenia Firth <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Guys. 
>> I have a number of files, about 64 of them, that I wish to braille 
>> translate. They are all in one fobbder. I have Louis on my Mac, and as best 
>> I can figure, there is no way to tell the program to qoanslate the whole 
>> folder and name the files in another one with the extension brl on the end. 
>> As far as I can see, you have to type in each file name. To do this more 
>> efficiently, I need to make a directory listing, preferably into a file that 
>> I could open in TextEdit or Pages. This way, I can keep up with which files 
>> I've done already. How do I get a directory listing on this folder into a 
>> file? Failing that, how do I just get the folder's directory so that I can 
>> copy each file by hand first if necessary. I realize I could just go down 
>> the listing and copy the names on a brailler if necessary. I don't want to 
>> do that unless I have to. Have any ideas guys? 
>> 
>> 
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