| A description of how drives,
directories, and files
are displayed on an operating
system that allows for a large quantity of files and directories
to be listed in a small area. In a hierarchical file
system, the drives, directories, and files are displayed in
groups. For example, in the below picture,
the Windows directory (Windows\) contains the System32,
Tasks, and Web directories.
In Microsoft
Windows and most other GUI
operating systems a user
can expand
a drive or directory to see what it contains by double-clicking the
drive or directory, or by clicking a small + to the left of the drive
or directory. By expanding the drive or directory you will be able
to see what it contains. For example, when looking at the above image
again, a computer
may only display
the A:\ and C:\
drive; if the user expands the C:\ drive it would display the Program
Files\, Temp\, and Windows\ directories. The user could then continue
and expand the Windows\ directory to see its contents.
In a non GUI operating system, such as MS-DOS,
the drive and directories are listed in one line
of text.
For example, if you were in the Spool
directory, the MS-DOS path
may look like the below example (again using the above example).
C:\Windows\System32\Spool>
Also see: Console tree, Directory, Drive,
File, Operating
system definitions, Root
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