Barry Bailey (06/06/90)
Whenever I double click on a document created by WRITE, a dialog box is displayed with the message "Cannot find file", I click on OK then WRITE is loaded with a new document. At this time I can FILE OPEN the document in the current subdirectory. I have checked the WIN.INI file for some sort of PATH restrictions in the [WRITE] section, none exist. I was told that the APPEND command in AUTOEXEC.BAT might mess up WIN, I took it out. My PATH command is OK, the application is always found but not the document. I am able to launch all other applications (including standard app's) by double clicking on their respective document files from a variety of subdirectories and floppy disks (I tested for this :< What's the deal? Anyone ever have this happen to them? Reply to USERE9W9@RPITSMTS or here. thanks barry
rspangle@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Randy Spangler) (06/07/90)
In article <9848.2364.forumexp@mts.rpi.edu> Barry Bailey writes: > > > Whenever I double click on a document created by WRITE, a dialog box > is displayed with the message "Cannot find file", I click on OK then > WRITE is loaded with a new document. At this time I can FILE OPEN the > document in the current subdirectory. I have checked the WIN.INI file > for some sort of PATH restrictions in the [WRITE] section, none > exist. I was told that the APPEND command in AUTOEXEC.BAT might mess > up WIN, I took it out. My PATH command is OK, the application is > always found but not the document. I've had similar problems with some shareware apps, and I discovered that it wasn't necessarily the file I clicked on that they couldn't find. For some reason, Windows looks only in the windows directory sometimes, completely ignoring the path. Workaround unknown. I DO wish that it would tell me WHICH file it couldn't find. (the last problem I eventually solved - programs were looking for WIN87EM.EXE in the Windows directory and not finding it - so I copied WIN87EM.DLL from the windows/system directory and renamed it *.EXE and it worked fine). ---------- As a side note, would someone with Compuserve access please tell the net about all the shareware programs being announced there? I haven't got access to it, and I haven't heard diddly about shareware for Win 3.0. How about someone posting these programs, or at least putting them somewhere we can anon.ftp them? All the ftp sites I've looked at recently still have the same year-old garbage but nothing for 3.0. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Randy Spangler | The less things change, the | | rspangle@jarthur.claremont.edu | more they remain the same | --------------------------------------------------------------------------