thanks merlyn.. had no clue that they wouldn't always be the first two.. I'll leave as is

edit:Here's the final version for anyone interested. I'm printing the items using TextPad because I like its formatting. I realize its proprietary but I just wrote it for personal use. I could have use the win 32 print shell command but its formatting was ugly so i decided to use textpad. It could easily adapted to provide max compatibility 
#!/perl -w

use strict;

print "Enter the path of the folder to print: ";
chomp(my $path=<STDIN>);

#Fix the slashes
$path =~ s{\\}{\\\\}g;

#Open the directory
if(opendir PRINT,$path)
{
    #Loop through the files
    foreach((readdir(PRINT)))
    {
        #Skip . and ..
        if(($_ eq ".") or ($_ eq ".."))
     {next;}
        
        #If it is a file
        if(open TEST,$path."\\".$_)
        {
        #Make sure it is a text file
        if(-T TEST) 
        {
            #Close the file
            close TEST;
            print "currently printing: ".$_."\n";
            #Print the file
            system("\"c:\\Program Files\\TextPad 4\\Textpad.exe\" -p \
+"$path.\\$_\"");
        }
        else
            {print $_. " is a non-text file!\n";}
        }
        else
            {print $_." is a folder!\n";}
    } 
}
else
    {print "Could not open directory for printing!";}

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