FILE MANAGEMENT METHOD

摘要

A file management method has highly general versatility among applications, does not waste recording area, and facilitates handling of volumes of discrete and grouped files and group information. A recording medium for use in the file management method. A contents management file (CMF) is provided for collectively all of necessary files and all groups, so that application can deal with volumes of filed on a disk through CMF without direct communication with the file systems and a necessitating the grouping can be performed in highly general versatility.