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NEW CAPABILITIES OF CHANGE DIRECTORY COMMAND
I hope you're sufficiently familiar with DOS to
know that the command "CD.." in a DOS window
will immediately change directories to the parent
directory of whatever directory you're currently in. (For
example, if you are now in the directory
"C:\Programs\Games\Windows", then when you type
"CD.." you will next be in the directory
"C:\Programs\Games", which is the
"parent" directory, that is, the directory
immediately above the current directory in the tree.)
Now, DOS 7.0 (which is what comes with Windows 95) has
been modified so that if you type "CD..." you
will then be transferred to the directory which is the
parent of the parent ("grandparent"?) of the
current directory. In the example cited above, that means
you will go to the directory "C:\Programs". You
can also type FOUR periods after the letters
"CD": CD.... In that case you go the
great-grandparent of the current directory, which in the
example would be the root directory: C:\.
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