You are in 'C:\Documents and Settings\liverpole\perl' on the current drive
You are in 'D:\testdir' on the 'D' drive

 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is E451-D99E

 Directory of C:\Documents and Settings\liverpole\perl

[.]     [..]    dirtest.pl    dirtest.pl~
               2 File(s)            836 bytes
               2 Dir(s)  10,946,477,056 bytes free
 Volume in drive D is WIN2000
 Volume Serial Number is EEE2-EEE2

 Directory of D:\testdir

[.]     [..]    a.txt   b.txt   c.txt
               3 File(s)             24 bytes
               2 Dir(s)   3,777,839,104 bytes free