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Article #7208wordstar pathnames
From: Matt Dillon
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1986 20:52
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1986 20:52
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>Gack! Last I knew, WordStar STILL won't accept pathnames. IBM certainly >did NOT change from flat to hierarchical without any problems. In general, >you had to be in the same directory as your files to use them. And that >has persisted in many programs, even popular ones. >-Steve Dorner The point is that it was upwardly compatible... you could still give Wordstar non-path file names. -Matt
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