Section: Problems Operating Systems are Good at Solving
...Subsection: Literal Disk organization
... ...Subsubsection: Example

Let's say you are looking for the Clipart files on your computer. You wish to see what pictures are available so you can use one or two in a document for a class where you really want to impress your instructor. Since your computer has Windows 95 it should be easy to find these files, after all you can click on the different yellow folders to see what is contained in those folders. Under the Windows directory you find the subdirectory, Msoffice. Under this subdirectory there are several subdirectories, including Word. Under the Word subdirectory, there are several more subdirectories, along with some files. One of these subdirectories is the Clipart subdirectory. Oh, good, this is just what you were looking for. You click on the Clipart subdirectory folder and find the Clipart files which your computer has.

Q. 8

You can create your own directories, and subdirectories on the hard drive of your computer, can they be created on a diskette?

Q. 9

Just because you can create directories and subdirectories on a diskette; does that mean you should do it?