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

<DIR>

 

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10:17a

WORDPROC

<DIR>

 

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10:32a

COMMAND

COM

25307 3-17-87 12:00a

CONFIG

SYS

209

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10:48a

AUTOEXEC

BAT

309

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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:

CD \LEDGER

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