Epson Equity LT User Manual - Page 80

Changing directories, at the end, MEMOS \ MEMO1, This is the first memo., LETTERS, MEMOS, <DIR&gt

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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 MEMOS The 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. 4-16 Using MS-DOS With the Equity LT

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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
<DIR>
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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Using MS-DOS With the Equity LT