markz@microsoft.UUCP (Mark Zbiokowski) (09/28/83)
The reason WORDSTAR looks only in the current directory for it's overlays is that it is using the old-style (and extremely limited) FCBs for all I/O. The FCBs have only enough room in them for a file name and not a directory specification; restricting them to work in the current directory only is a reasonable extention of their function for hierarchical file systems. Using ASSIGN is a dangerous proposition; it's behaviour is sometimes not as expected.