stever@tektronix.UUCP (02/13/86)
There are several utilities on the market that will define paths for non-.EXE, -.COM, and -.BAT files. One such program is Filepath which I am perfectly happy with. It works in much the same manner as the DOS path command. It allows one to have directories for each category of Wordstar files that you desire. You can then store all the Wordstar program files in a single directory. It even helps for other programs that do support pathnames in as much as it will search any directory that is defined in the filepath command line for a file name where the path has not been given to the program. It can be acquired from SDA Associates P.O. Box 36152 San Jose, CA 95158 (408) 281-7747 for $24.50 + $2.00 handling for version 2.0 or for $34.50 + $2.00 handling for version 3.0 which adds 'wildcard' characters in directory names and some other features Filepath and WS-DOS have kept me loyal to WS. Now if the WS could only keep up with my mouse....
story@calma.UUCP (Glen Story) (02/14/86)
In article <6544@tektronix.UUCP> stever@tektronix.UUCP writes: >Filepath and WS-DOS have kept me loyal to WS. Now if the >WS could only keep up with my mouse.... You described Filepath in your article, but what is WS-DOS? Glenn Story calma!story@ucbvax.ARPA {ucbvax,sun,csd-gould}!calma!story
stever@tektronix.UUCP (Steven D. Rogers) (04/17/86)
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.