mia@ecsvax.UUCP (01/07/84)
Have any of you out there had any success getting WordStar 3.30 operating under DOS2.0
to recognize any form of paths? Particularly using the XT? If so your help would be greatly
appreciated.
Mark Appelbaum
358 Davie Hall -0l3A
UNC-Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 275l4
(919-962-5036)
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"pdoc@ecsvax.UUCP (01/08/84)
Wordstar 3.30 can be called from DOS 2.0 using the path mechanism, but all of its overlays must reside in the current sub-directory because Wordstar is not smart enough to load it's overlays using the paths. Maybe Micropro will get their act together before the next version of DOS comes out, but don't hold your breath. Sorry, Mark, but you are just going to have to get used to having lots of copies of the Wordstar overlays scattered about your XT. Doc Muhlbaier duke!mcnc!ecsvax!doc
genej@ecsvax.UUCP (01/11/84)
One way around the problem with Wordstar not recognizing path names is to
move Wordstar to a ram disk. You can then edit files in any directory.
This is much better than haveing several copies of wordstar on the hard disk.
Wordstar does have to be installed to use D as its overlay disk but this
is part of the install program with vers 3.3. An added benifit is much faster
performance as the time to load an overlay is nil. This method does of course
assume that you have memory enough for a ram disk to be created.
Gene Jackson
Triangle IBM User Group
Carolina Apple Corejph@whuxle.UUCP (01/14/84)
#R:ecsvax:-179900:whuxle:22700012:000:486 whuxle!jph Jan 8 21:52:00 1984 WordStar 3.30 does not recognize path names since it must use the system calls that are compatible with DOS 1.1. You have to be positioned in the correct directory when invoking WS. One thing I have done is to put the WS overlays and help files on a RAM disk and specified this as my 'system' disk so I don't have to have a copy every place I want to use it. By also using the PATH option of DOS 2.0 you can leave the WS.COM in one place, so it really doesn't become much of a problem.
saj@iuvax.UUCP (02/15/84)
#R:ecsvax:-179900:iuvax:1500004:000:680 iuvax!apratt Jan 11 01:40:00 1984 Can't you configure your hard disk to be several "devices", of arbitrary (but prescribed) size? That is, on an 8M disk, can't you have 2M as C:, 4M as D:, and 2M as E: (or something like that)? If that is the case, why not declare 90K to a single device, put the overlays there, and set the proper byte in WS.COM (the one which tells WS where to look for its overlays if they're not in the current directory)? If I'm wrong, and you must declare the entire HD as a singe drive (with, of course, multiple directories), then I offer my apologies for wasting your time and my condolances for your wasted space. -- Allan Pratt ...ihnp4!inuxc!iuvax!apratt (note new path)