User's Manual

Copying from one directory to another

You use the COPY command to copy files from one directory to

another. Specify the pathname of the file you want to copy,

then specify the directory where you want to place the copy. For

example, if you are in the WORDPROC directory and want to

copy MICHELLE f

rom

the PERSONAL subdirectory to the

BUSINESS subdirectory, type the following and press Enter:

COPY PERSONAL\MICHELLE BUSINESS

Be sure to type a space between the filename and the new

pathname. You do not type a backslash before PERSONAL or

BUSINESS because they are subdirectories of the current

directory. If you do enter the backslashes, MS-DOS looks in the

root directory for the directory and does not find them.

MS-DOS provides two special notations to identify the current

directory and the next directory. These two notations are the

first entries in each directory other than the root directory:

This represents the current directory. Typing DIR. is the

same as typing DIR without the period.

This represents the next directory above the current one,

called the parent directory. If WEST is your current

directory, typing DIR..

displays the contents of the SALES

subdirectory.

Using MS-DOS

with Your Apex 3-11