home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- ROOT
-
- Root is the top level directory of a diskette, hard disk or disk partition.
- The pathname for root is \. The root directory always exists on every disk.
-
- A root directory differs from other directories in some important ways:
- 1. . and .. are not present in a root directory. For more information
- about "." and "..", leave the NEW_TERMS topic (by pressing the Return,
- Enter, or the <──┘ key at the "NEW_TERMS Topic?" prompt), and then
- request the DIR SUBDIRECTORIES topic.
- 2. a root directory can have at most 112 entries (labels, files and
- subdirectories) in it. Other directories can have hundreds of entries.
- 3. MKDIR and RMDIR can never make or remove a root directory.