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Article #7565Re: W4W change doc directory?
From: David R Preston
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 1990 21:03
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 1990 21:03
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In article <1990Dec14.122008.19073@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> cpa@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Christopher P Avram) writes:
>One way to change the default directory used by
>Microsoft Word for Windows or any other standard
>application
[steps 1-15 deleted]
>I wish I new the correct way to do this.
With a pif file. The manual mainly addresses using pifs with non-windows
applications, but there's no reason you can't use it with a windows application
to specify the start-up directory. You can even have several pifs, each with
a different start-up directory. I'm not sure exactly how to do it....
-david
preston@lll-crg.llnl.gov
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