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From: brown@nicmad.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: Silly question (accessing /)
Message-ID: <744@nicmad.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 27-Jun-86 00:57:56 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 27 00:57:56 1986
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Reply-To: brown@nicmad.UUCP (Mr. Video)
Organization: Nicolet Instrument Corp. Madison WI
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In article <789@unirot.UUCP> liz@unirot.UUCP (Mamaliz ) writes:
>All of a sudden I am terribly confused.  The DOS technical reference tells
>me that \ is not a file.  How do I find out what files are under it then?
>Where do I find it?  I do not hack assembler and would really like to do
>what I am doing in C.
>
>So, how do people deal with the fact that root has no . ?

It is understood that the root directory is the next cluster after the FAT.
Ok, I know!  How do you know which sector starts the FAT and which sector
starts the directory area?

A recent issue of PC Tech Journal had a very nice discussion on how to find
the various values that DOS uses to determine such goodies.  I suggest getting
a copy and reading through it.  You will find it very helpful.
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