saj@iuvax.UUCP (02/15/84)
#R:amd70:-432200:iuvax:1500008:000:971
iuvax!apratt Feb 14 22:30:00 1984
amd70!tc writes:
The disk is formatted as four volumes (A:-D:) and the floppies are
E: and F:. I keep all my utilities on A:, do a PATH and it finds
all them out of any directory of any volume (even WORDSTAR and its
overlays).
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I encourage you not to be fooled: WordStar (in all versions incl. 3.0)
will *not* follow any path specification for its overlays. WordStar *does*
have a byte you can set, telling it what drive to look on for its overlays
if it doesn't find them on the "current" drive, but this is not the same
thing. It does *not* look at the environment variable "PATH". The program
"ws" (or whatever) *is* found by looking at the PATH variable, but the
overlays are only searched for in two places: the current directory of the
current drive, and the current directory of the drive mentioned in the byte
which is assembled into WordStar itself.
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"Can YOU whistle at 300 baud?"
-- Allan Pratt
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