Commodore PC 40 - Drive Name

4 MS-DOS User's Guide
Floppy disk drive
Hard disk drive
Drive Name
A complete drive name consists of a drive letter and a colon.
When using a command, you may need to type a drive name
before
your filename to tell MS· DOS where to find the disk that
contains
your file. For example, suppose you have a file named
finances.doc on the disk in drive B. To tell MS·DOS where to find
this file you
would type the drive name before the filename:
b:finances.doc
I drive name I filename with extension
If you don't specify a drive name when you type a filename,
MS· DOS automatically searches for the file on the disk in the
default drive. To let you know that it is ready to receive a com-
mand,
MS-DOS displays a prompt that contains the default drive
letter followed by a greater-than sign. Following the prompt on
your screen is the cursor, the small box or flashing underline that
shows where the next character you type will appear.
Example
A>
I
lcursor
MS-DOS prompt
So when your prompt is A>, MS·DOS searches only the disk in
drive A for files
and programs - unless you tell it to search in
another drive.
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