Epson 10020 User Manual

Relative pathnames can tell MS-DOS to move upward in the
directory tree as well as downward. The symbol . . (two periods)

in a pathname tells MS-DOS to move upward one level in the
tree. Thus, if the default directory were WORDPROC (in the

above example), the pathname . . \ DOS would tell MS-DOS to

move up one level from WORDPROC (in this case to the root

directory) and then find a subdirectory called DOS.

You can use either relative or absolute pathnames at any time,

as long as you give 

enough information to find the

directory or file at the end of the pathname.

You usually use a pathname when you want to access a file that

is not stored in the current default directory. The name of the

file you want to access is specified at the end of the pathname,

like this:

TYPE

\WORDPROC\PERSONAL\JEAN1204.DOC

This command tells MS-DOS to list on screen (TYPE) the

contents of the file JEAN 1204.DOC, which is stored in the

directory \ WORDPROC\ PERSONAL. Note that the
filename is connected to the pathname by a backslash

character-the same character used to separate the various

directories in the pathname itself.

As explained earlier, if you want to access a file stored on a

drive other than the default drive, you have to include a drive
designator (A:, for example) along with the filename. Likewise,

if the file you want is not stored in the default directory of that

drive, you need to include a pathname as well as the drive
designator.