System Files - Applied Engineering EY5QGRAMKEEPER User Manual

2)
3)
Pathname
The name of the directory combined with the names of
one or more subdirectories is called a pathname. Volume
names and subdirectory names are preceded by a slash,
"/". (Note that some applications add the slash for you.)
For example, you could have a volume named /
and have a file, called /MY.FILE on the root directory of
that disk. To access that file, you would use the pathname
/MY.DISK/MY.FILE.
/JUL.AUG
disk called
pathname,
diagram below.
BILLS (root dir.)
Now when an application asks you for the pathname of a
file, you'll have a basic understanding of what it expects.

System Files

A system file is a ProDOS file that starts an application.
Typically, these files have the suffix,
/APLWORKS
When you boot ProDOS, it runs the first system file listed
in its directory. So, if BASIC.SYSTEM is the first system
file on your ProDOS boot disk, ProDOS will boot then put
you in BASIC.
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put files within subdirectories like putting
documents in folders
put subdirectories within subdirectories like
putting folders within folders.
You could also have a file,
in a subdirectory (folder) called,
. To access that file, you would use the
/BILLS
/BILLS/PHONE/JUL.DEC.
PHONE (subdir.)
ELEC. (subdir.)
ACCOUNT.SYSTEM (file)
<
GAS (subdir.)
FAMOUS (subdir.
ProDOS Directory Structure
SYSTEM, /ACCOUNT
.
/PHONE
Refer to the
JAN.JUN
<
(files)
JUL.DEC
JAN.JUN
<
(files)
JUL.DEC
ZIPPY.FUEL (subdir.)
NTTRO.NEDS (subdir.)
WILD
<
THE.KID
BO.BAGGINS
SYSTEM
.
[see above], etc.).
SYSTEM
.
MY.DISK
on a
JAN.JUN
<
JUL.DEC
JAN.JUN
<
JUL.DEC
(files)
(e.g.