Changing directories – Epson Y16499100301 User Manual

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Press

F6.

Then type the following and press

Enter

at the end

of each line:

COPY

CON: \ MEMOS \ MEMO1

This is the first memo.

Press F6.

Now you have one file in each of the subdirectories. (The

COPY command with CON: copies what you enter from the
keyboard to a file.)

To display the names of these new subdirectories in the

root directory, type

DIR

and press

Enter.

In the list of files in

the root directory, you should see the following:

LETTERS

< D I R >

MEMOS

<DIR>

The

<DIR>

after a name identifies this as a subdirectory of

the current directory.

If you want to access either of the new files you created,

you must first do one of the following:

l

Change directories

l

Specify the pathname.

Changing directories

To change directories, merely type CD followed by a

backslash and the name of the subdirectory. For example, to

change to the LETTERS subdirectory, type the following and
press

Enter:

CD \ LETTERS

CD is for Change Directory (you can also type CHDIR), the

backslash (for root directory) specifies that the new directory is

a subdirectory of the root directory, and LETTERS is the name

of the new directory.

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