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Creating directories, Changing directories – Epson LT-286 User Manual

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Creating Directories

The MKDIR command lets you create directories. To create the

directory LEDGER under your root directory, for example, you
would type the following and press

Enter:

MKDIR \LEDGER

You can abbreviate the name of this command to MD. For example,

to create a SALES directory under the LEDGER directory, you

could type the following and press

Enter:

MD

\LEDGER\SALES

To check that the LEDGER directory is a subdirectory of the root

directory, type

DIR

\ and press

Enter.

The screen displays a list of files in the root directory, along with

the names of any subdirectories of the root directory:

LEDGER

9-14-88

10:17a

WORDPROC

9-14-88 10:32a

COMMAND

COM

25307 3-17-87 12:00a

CONFIG

SYS

209

9-14-88 10:48a

AUTOEXEC BAT

309

9-14-88 12:11p

3 File(s) 18625536 bytes free

The subdirectories are identified by the letters

<

DIR

>. Thus,

when

you

type

DIR

\ after creating the subdirectory LEDGER, you

should find the entry

LEDGER

<

DIR

>,

as well as the names of all

the root directory files.

Changing Directories

To make a different directory the current directory, type

CHDIR

(or

CD)

followed by the pathname of the directory that you want to be

current. This is called changing directories. For example, to change
from any directory to the directory LEDGER (which is a

subdirectory of the root directory), type the following and press

Enter:

C

D

\

LED

G

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