Tandy 1000 MS-DOS Reference Manual page 27

Chapter 2 / Organization Of Information
However, when specifying a file or directory that is within or
below the current directory, and on the same disk, you may
begin the pathname immediately below your current directory.
The rest of the pathname is implied.
For example, suppose you are in the directory A: \ USER \ MIKE.
To access the \ USER directory on the same disk, give the com-
plete pathname (minus the drive specification). For example: '
dlr \user
If you want to access the \ USER \ MIKE \ MEMOS directory on
the same disk, begin the pathname below the current directory.
For example:
dir memos
Notice that you should not precede this pathname with a back-
slash. That is because the pathname \MEMOS specifies a direc-
tory that does not exist-one that would be an immediate
subdirectory of the root directory.
If you are still in \ USER \ MIKE, you can specify a file in that
directory by giving only the filename. For example, if you type:
dir Job1
the complete pathname \ USER \MIKE \job! is implied.
Again, if you are still in \ USER \ MIKE and you type
MEMOS \ mgrs, the complete pathname \ USER \ MIKE \
MEMOS \ mgrs is implied.
When you enter commands, MS-DOS automatically expands
pathnames as needed. For example, if you type:
copy Job1 memos\newJob1\ENTERI
MS-DOS interprets this as:
copy \user\mike\Job1 \user\mike\memos\newJob1
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