"Jason Coggins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > I am new to Linux. On Windows the base directory > is c:\.
Or D:\ or E:\ etc... In other words Windows has many base directories, one per physical drive. > What is the base directory for Linux? In *nix there is only one logical directory structure and all devices are mapped on to it. The base of this logical tree is /. Thus to use your example /programs/fileName.py. Except that there is a conventional set of names so a better path would be: /usr/local/bin/fileName.py Since /usr/local/bin is the traditional place to store programs installed by users (as opposed to admins or system utilities). bin here standing for binary and not the recycle bin! HTH, -- Alan Gauld Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
