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root directory
Last modified: Tuesday, November 25, 1997
The top
directory
in a
file system
. The root directory is provided by the
operating system
and has a special
name
; for example, in
DOS
systems
the root directory is called
\
. The root directory is sometimes referred to simply as the
root.
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