Tandy 1000 MS-DOS User Manual

Chapter 2 / Organization Of Information
Knowing about home directories is particularly helpful when you
copy
files. Suppose you must copy several files from
A: \ USER \MIKE to B: \ PAYROLL. Make B: \ PAYROLL the
home directory of Drive B; then make A: \ USER \MIKE your
current directory. Now you can copy each file, specifying only
the filenames.
If you type:
copy Job1 b:newJob1 [ENTERI
MS-DOS interprets this as:
copy a:\user\mike\Job1 b:\payroll\newJob1 [ENTERj
Anonymous Directory Names
If you need to refer to your current directory, or to a higher level
directory
and do not know the full pathname or just want to save
typing time, you can use name substitutes. For example:
• The
name "." refers to the current directory.
• The
name " .. " refers to the parent of the current direc-
tory (the next highest-level directory in the path).
• The
name" .. \ .. " refers to the directory two levels up.
You can use anonymous names in place of pathnames and/or as
the first names in pathnames. Some examples:
d i r . [ENTER I
lists filenames in the current directory.
era s e .. \ t a xes 84 I ENTER I
deletes the Taxes84 file from the current directory's parent
directory.
Substitute names may refer to either the current directory or
the home directory of another drive, depending on whether or not
you include a drive specification. For example:
erase b: .. \taxes84 [ENTERI
deletes the Taxes84 file from the parent directory of the home
directory of Drive B.
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Tandy 1000 MS-DOS Specifications

General

Brand	Tandy
Model	1000 MS-DOS
Category	Desktop
Language	English