| 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,
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