Displaying A Directory Or Folder; Files And Filenames - Atari Faicon030 Owner's Manual

Fa/con030 Owner 's Manual
When you open a folder, the fol de r ' s name is added to the move bar. If you opened
a fol der cal led LETTERS that resided in the root directory of drive A, the move bar
would display the fol lowing:
A :\LETTE RS\* . *
D i s p l ay i n g a D i recto ry o r Folder
You can view the contents of a directory o r folder by opening the icon, displaying
i ts contents.
To open a directory or folder, position the pointer over the desired icon, then
double-click the left mouse button or h ighlight the desired icon and select the
Open command from the File men u . Once the w i ndow displays, you can select
other fi les and folders from the list.
Directories and folders contain data fi les, program fi les, and other folders. If you
have a number of related fi les, you can place them inside one folder to keep them
together. You can also put folders and fi les within other folders. You can create a
folder using the Create Folder command. ( See
Chapter 4,
Fi l es and F i l e n am es
There are two types of fi les. Executable fi les ( al so cal led programs or applications)
contain instructions for the computer to carry out. Most of the time the instructions
contained in executable fi les are used to work with information i n data fi les. A data
file is a collection of information that contains no instructions fot the computer.
You can place fi les in root directories and folders. I f you choose to display your
folders and files as i cons ( see
Desktop. ) ,
i n that directory. The name of the file or folder w i l l display under its icon.
5-2 Desktop Management
A
Guided Tour of the Desktop. )
View Menu,
you w i l l have as many icons i n a directory as you have folders and fi les
File Menu, in
A
i n Chapter 4, Guided Tour of the