EECS 1520 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Root Directory, Readwrite

• School: York University
• Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Course: EECS 1520
• Professor: Gordon Turpin

Document Summary

Office hours: cse 3020 tuesday and thursday from 1:15 2:15. Within the cpu there is the ir (information register) and the pc (processing component) Two ways to think of files, how we see them (word document) or as a sequence of bytes. Fragmentation occurs if there isn"t enough space to place it all together. Folder holds files, directories only hold list of what"s inside. Windows works with c:\ and unix uses / . Everything except root folder has a parent . Pathname: relative or absolute, relative doesn"t begin with root directory (anthony yorku\lecture1, absolute begins with absolute path name (c:\my documents\anthony.