Important Notice

The pages on this site contain documentation for very old MS-DOS software, purely for historical purposes. If you're looking for up-to-date documentation, particularly for programming, you should not rely on the information found here, as it will be woefully out of date.

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Any file name can contain a full or partial path name.
A full path name starts with the drive name; a partial
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file name, but does not include a drive name. For
example,
 
  a:progsgraphiccircle.bas is a valid full path name
  graphiccircle.bas is a valid partial path name
  ..graphiccircle.bas is a valid partial path name
 
This error can also occur when you try to save a file
which replaces an existing read-only file.