Epson Apex, User Manual

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Creating and Using Directories
MS-DOS stores the names of the files in directories. This makes
it easy for you to organize and find your files. A directory
contains specific information about each file such as its name,
size, and the date and time you last updated the file.
As you create more and more files within a directory, you may
find it difficult to quickly locate files. You may want to create
subdirectories within your main directory so you can group files
more efficiently. This kind of organization is called a tree-
structured directory.
At the top of the tree-structured directory is the main directory,
also called the root directory. The root directory can contain
many subdirectories, and each subdirectory can contain other
subdirectories. The structure of a directory may look like this:
The root directory does not have a name, but is always identi-
fied by a backslash (\). Each subdirectory has a name, and you
can access any file in any subdirectory by using a pathname. The
name of a subdirectory can be up to eight characters long,
consisting of letters and numbers.
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