| Home, or Root, Directory: |
| The Admin builds and maintains Unique, per user, Home directories. Your Home directory is the directory the server puts you in immdediately after you signin. Your home directory has the following characteristics: The following snapshot displays your current working Directory which happens to be your Home Directory. The snapshot also displays all the subdirectories you can access. |
| ftp> ftp> pwd <<== pwd stands for Print Working Directory . 257 "/" <<== means you are in your Home Directory. ftp> ftp> ftp> dir <<== LIST the directory. 200 Command okay. 150 File status okay, about to open data connection. drw-rw-rw- 1 vse none 0 Aug 12 11:17 ALLLIBS drw-rw-rw- 1 vse none 0 Aug 12 11:17 MACLIB drw-rw-rw- 1 vse none 0 Aug 12 11:17 POWER drw-rw-rw- 1 vse none 0 Aug 12 11:17 PRD1 drw-rw-rw- 1 vse none 0 Aug 12 11:17 START drw-rw-rw- 1 vse none 0 Aug 12 11:17 VSAM 226 Closing data connection. ftp: 332 bytes received in 0.33Seconds 1.01Kbytes/sec. ftp> ftp> |
| 1) The Home, or root, directory is the highest level in your directory structure 2) Your home directory always points to subdirectories. It never points to files. 3) You can always LIST your Home Directory by issuing the "DIR /" command. . The Admin cann't disable this property. 4) You can always go back to your Home Directory by issuing the "CD /" command. |