---
title: "“PATHS” on the QL"
type: "article"
slug: "paths-on-the-ql"
url: "http://localhost/article/paths-on-the-ql/"
markdown_url: "http://localhost/article/paths-on-the-ql.md"
published_at: "2026-02-08T21:52:59+00:00"
modified_at: "2026-02-08T21:53:00+00:00"
featured_image:
  url: "http://localhost/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/20230809-041332.jpg"
excerpt: "Following on from the article above using the DEV device on Gold Cards to adapt software to run from subdirectories on ED disks or from hard disks, | now present the second part of this treatise on DEV. This time I show how to use it to implement a facility along the lines of PATH…"
category:
  - name: "International QL Report"
    slug: "international-ql-report"
    taxonomy: "category"
    url: "http://localhost/category/periodicals/international-ql-report/"
post_tag:
  - name: "QL"
    slug: "ql"
    taxonomy: "post_tag"
    url: "http://localhost/tag/ql/"
  - name: "Superbasic (programming language)"
    slug: "superbasic-programming-language"
    taxonomy: "post_tag"
    url: "http://localhost/tag/superbasic-programming-language/"
  - name: "Type-in program"
    slug: "type-in-program"
    taxonomy: "post_tag"
    url: "http://localhost/tag/type-in-program/"
model:
  - name: "Sinclair QL"
    slug: "sinclair-ql"
    taxonomy: "model"
    url: "http://localhost/model/sinclair-ql/"
indiv:
  - name: "Dilwyn Jones"
    slug: "dilwyn-jones"
    taxonomy: "indiv"
    url: "http://localhost/indiv/dilwyn-jones/"
publication_r:
  id: 33740
  title: "International QL Report"
  type: "periodical"
  url: "http://localhost/periodical/international-ql-report/"
authors_r:
  - name: "Dilwyn Jones"
    slug: "dilwyn-jones"
    taxonomy: "indiv"
    url: "http://localhost/indiv/dilwyn-jones/"
volume: "4"
issue: "2"
issues_articles:
  - id: 37208
    title: "International QL Report V4 I2"
    type: "issue"
    url: "http://localhost/issue/international-ql-report-v4-i2/"
pages: "40-42"
pubdate: "July/August 1994"
archive_link: false
---

# “PATHS” on the QL

Following on from the article above using the DEV device on Gold Cards to adapt software to run from subdirectories on ED disks or from hard disks, | now present the second part of this treatise on DEV. This time I show how to use it to implement a facility along the lines of PATH on a PC.