Uniform Naming Convention

networking (UNC) Used in IBM PC networking to completely

specify a directory on a file server.

The basic format is:

\servernamesharename

where "servername" is the hostname of a network file server,

and "sharename" is the name of a networked or shared

directory. Note this is not the same as the conventional

MS-DOS "C:windows" directory name. E.g.

\server1dave

might be set up to point to

C:usershomedirsdave

on a server called "server1".

It is possible to execute a program using this convention

without having to specifically link a drive, by running:

\serversharedirectoryprogram.exe

The undocumented DOS command, TRUENAME can be used to find

out the UNC name of a file or directory on a network drive.

(1995-11-14)