Atari PORTFOLIO Owner's Manual page 32

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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

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