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Article #8911Re: Desqview default directory
From: Jason Merrill
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1990 20:30
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1990 20:30
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In article <1336@maytag.waterloo.edu> dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu (Duncan Murdoch) writes: >Desqview has one very annoying "feature": when you start up an application >from the menu, you can specify that it should start in a particular directory, >or you can say nothing, in which case it will start in the Desqview directory, >but you can't say that it should start up in the directory you're currently >working in. How would you define "the directory you're currently working in"? To DESQview, that is always \DV, or wherever you called DESQview from. If you open a DOS window and do a CD, it will only change the directory that window is working in, not a global pointer.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!jarthur!jmerrill From: jmerrill@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Jason Merrill) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Desqview default directory Message-ID: <3846@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> Date: 19 Jan 90 20:30:53 GMT References: <1336@maytag.waterloo.edu> Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711 Lines: 11