Drive Name - Commodore PC Ms-Dos 3.2 User's Manual

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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:f i nances.doc
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
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I cursor
MS-DOS prompt
So when your prompt is A>, msdos searches only the disk in
drive A for files and programs — unless you tell it to search in
another drive.
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