Linking to a File on Another Disk

You don't have to confine your path name to one disk. Once you have pointed to the root level, you can put the name of another disk in the directory path, and go down into any directory.

On a DOS/Windows computer the disks are referred to by their designated letter, but a vertical slash (|) is used instead of the colon. So a valid directory path might be:

d|/directory1/directory2/directory3/file.html

On the Macintosh each hard disk is referred to by its name, and spaces are allowed in Macintosh names. So a path may be like this:

Web Stuff 2/folder_name/folder_name/file_name
Notice that the spaces are replaced by underlines. The Macintosh file system allows spaces, as does Windows 95, but Unix does not. Get into the habit of using underlines instead of spaces.

Unix systems generally have such enormous hard drives, or many drives linked together to form one huge virtual drive, that there is usually no need to use another drive name. Your Web site administrator can take care of this in other ways.

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