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Article #6243RE: Wordstar & Directories
From: Steven D. Rogers
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1986 17:45
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1986 17:45
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Wordstar will not work by itself to find text (or its own overlay files) in other than the directory it resides in. However, there are several relatively cheap utilities on the market that allow you to use Wordstar (and other programs) from another directory. These softwares still do not enable Wordstar to handle pathnames, however it is much more effective to work from directory containing the text files. These utilities work in the same manner as the DOS command path. Path only works with .BAT, .EXE, and .COM files. The utility I use is called FilePath by SDA Associates, P.O. Box 36152, San Jose, CA 95158, 408 281 7747. It works great. I don't know the names of the other ones or how well they work. I would think there would be a public domain version of this utility by now.
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 (USS@Tek, v1.1) based on 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site tektronix.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!bellcore!decvax!tektronix!stever From: stever@tektronix.UUCP (Steven D. Rogers) Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: RE: Wordstar & Directories Message-ID: <7206@tektronix.UUCP> Date: Thu, 17-Apr-86 12:45:29 EST Article-I.D.: tektroni.7206 Posted: Thu Apr 17 12:45:29 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 19-Apr-86 13:14:30 EST Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR Lines: 23