Re: Filesystems (was My First Computer)

["Bill Leary" <Bill_Leary@msn.com>]

"CBFalconer" <cbfalconer@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> It was extremely easy to build the equivalent of a hierachical
> ((..omitted..))
> Note that a LBR could contain a further LBR, thus handling the
> hierarchy business.

I guess I never noticed that ability of .LBR.

You could execute programs down in the heirarchy too.  Extending my previous
example, if you put WORDSTAR in some sub-directory, or gave it a long file
name, you could type:

    word_star_wp my_document.doc

and it might become:

    DX32JKL1.COM ZP478D29.DOC

Now that you've reminded me, if whatever you named followed the 8.3 naming
convention, and was in root, it's name was left unchanged  If the name was
outside 8.3 or wasn't in root, it got modified.

And the command shell DID do search paths as DOS does now.

    - Bill