USING
THE DRIVE SPECIFIER
You
will
need to instruct your computer whether
it
should use drive
A: or drive
C:.
To do this, you simply add a drive specifier code
in
front of the base name
of
the file. The drive specifier is a letter
followed by a colon. An A: stands for the diskette drive, and a C:
stands for the fixed disk drive. Given below are examples of drive
specifier codes as they are used with base names and extensions.
A:ACCTS.'83
C:ACCTS.'84
C:CAME. PAC
A:GAME.ZAP
If
you do not use a drive specifier code, the computer will assume
that you want to use the default drive, and
it
will proceed accordingly.
This
is
a perfectly acceptable way to do things if the default drive is
your choice.
For example,
if
the DOS prompt is the A> symbol, the following
two entries are equivalent
-
the computer will react in the same way
to either.
A:ACCTS.
'83
ACCTS.
'83
DIRECTORY NAMES
You
can
use
directory names to help you organize your files. The
Disk Operating System manual provides
full
information
on
the
use
of directory names.
A
FEW
PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS
If
you chose to, you could use a file name such as 4@#L%-. The
computer would have no problem.
You
might, however. After a
month or two, you would probably find
it
difficult to remember just
what was stored
in
a file with a name like that.
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