Atari Portfolio - Page 32

You
can slore
direclories
wilhin direclories.
Each
ol lhese
subdireciories
also carries
a list oi
ils contents.
you
can
also
store
liles within
directories
and subdtectories,
and lhe names
ol these liles
appear
on the direclory
list.
Direclories
provide
a way lo
group
liles and
subdirectories
togelher
for
organization
and storage
Matntaining
an organ-
ized
skuclure ,or
your
liles
helps
yoir
easttv locat; Iiles
a;J
creales
an ellicienl
working
environment.
Every lormalled
drive has al leasl
one dheclory
(lhe
main
or
root
directory),
which lists
all lhe files
and subdiirectories
on
lhai
drive. You cannol
name
the root direclory.
IDENTIFYING
DIFECTORIES
Directones
are displayed
in lhe Drreclorv
and File
window
Swrlch!n
yoL]l
Porllolio
and display the File
Manager
main
menu rhe
cursor
hrghtights the
word sysrEM
Note thal
<DlR>
displays
lo the right
of the word
SYSTEM_ This
means
lhal
SYSTEM
is lhe name
ol a directory.
unlabelfed
Address
book
Calcufator
Diary
Editor
setup
15:11
INS
PATHNAMES
A
palhname
is inlormalion
about a lile
or direclory's
localion
on a drive.
For example, il
you
have a fil€
called MOM.DOC
residing in a subdireclory
called
LETTERS residing
in another
subdireclory
called
wp residing on drave
C, lhe enlire
paih-
name ol Ihe
rile would look
like this:
C:IWPILETTEBSIMOM.DOC