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The hosts file is one of several system facilities that assists in addressing network nodes in a computer network. It is a common part of an operating system's Internet Protocol (IP) implementation, and serves the function of translating human-friendly hostnames into numeric protocol addresses, called IP addresses, that identify and locate a host in an IP network.
In Windows NT family, the system files are mainly under the folder C:\Windows\System32. In Mac OS they are in the System suitcase . And in Linux system the system files are located under folders /boot (the kernel itself), /usr/sbin ( system utilities ) and /usr/lib/modules (kernel device drivers ).
If you are looking for a simple, general mechanism for the local specification of IP addresses for specific hostnames (server names), use the HOSTS file, not the LMHOSTS file. The file, if it exists, is read as the LMHOSTS setting file. A sample file (lmhosts.sam) is provided. It contains documentation for manually configuring the file.
In Windows Vista and its successors, the .sys files are mainly found under the following paths: [7] C:\Windows\system32\drivers C:\Windows\WinSxS. In MS-DOS, the file named MSDOS.SYS is used to copy the system files from one drive to another, allowing the second drive to be bootable. MSDOS.SYS is located in the root directory of the bootable ...
And is a file called "HOSTS" which resides in the C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc directory. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.110.231.35 (talk • contribs) 18:55, 12 July 2005. Just to say that on Linux, most distributions (all?) use /etc/hosts; a move to Hosts file would make sense to me --Lox (t,c) 08:43, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
\System32 \SysWOW64: These folders store dynamic-link library (DLL) files that implement the core features of Windows and Windows API. Any time a program asks Windows to load a DLL file and do not specify a path, these folders are searched after program's own folder is searched. [5] "
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CD "C:.\Program Files" works the same as CD "C:/Program Files" Also, from a root folder: CD "C:.\Program Files.\Internet Explorer" would be treated the same as CD "C:/Program Files/Internet Explorer" If there is no relative path to the directory name specified with forward slashes you will get the following error: