.: Binky: cd

CD [dir]

If you don't specify a parameter, Binky will print out which directory you are currently in. Which means, you can experiment with the CD command to get familiar with it, and if you get lost, use just CD all by itself to display where you are. For more help on parameters, use HELP PARAMETERS.

Since the files available through Binky are sorted into directories (also known as folders), you may wish to navigate through the mess to find what you want. Let's take a hypothetical situation where you want to find a document on baking cookies. If you use the INDEX command and it gives you a list of directories such as this:

programming [D] Programming utils
texts [D] Text files
windows [D] Windows 3.x, 95/98, NT programs

You will likely want to proceed into the text files area. You then would give Binky the set of commands like

CD TEXTS
INDEX

and you would retrieve a listing of their text files. Let's assume that they sorted this into directories and you retrieved something similar to

accmail [D] Information on how to get stuff through e-mail
guides [D] Guides to assist you
recipes [D] Recipes
stories [D] Fiction and non-fiction stories

You would want then to change into the recipes directory. One may think to issue the following set of wrong commands

CD RECIPES *** WRONG ***
INDEX

But, that's wrong. Binky doesn't save which directory you are in between your different e-mails. The right set of commands would be

CD TEXTS
CD RECIPES
INDEX

This would get you exactly what you want. What if you have to keep going deeper and deeper? Well, you can use the "/" character between directories. The below example would give you exactly the same results as the above example

CD TEXTS/RECIPES
INDEX

You can also get the index of the recipes directory from the texts directory, like this

CD TEXTS
INDEX RECIPES

And you can even make it all into one command

INDEX TEXTS/RECIPES

Those of you familiar with DOS/Unix will recognise the ".." for directory names as well. Below is a large example which should tell you what should happen and give you a very good idea of the CD and INDEX commands. Assume they are all in the same email message.

INDEX
Gives you an index of the main directory
CD TEXTS
Changes to the texts directory
INDEX
Gives you an index of the texts directory
CD RECIPES
Changes to the recipes directory
INDEX
Gives you an index of the texts/recipes directory
INDEX ..
Gives you an index of the texts directory
CD /TEXTS
Changes back to the texts directory
CD RECIPES/../
Changes to texts/recipes, then back to texts
CD RECIPES//
Changes to texts/recipes, then back to main
CD TEXTS/RECIPES/../../
Does nothing -- goes to text/recipes and back

Hopefuly this will give you a better understanding of the CD command. If you like, you can request HELP INDEX to know more about the INDEX command.