(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)
