roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) (07/31/90)
On my IIcx under 6.0.5 (sonic finder and inits up the wazoo) the
Word Finder DA that comes with MS Word 4.0 can't seem to locate the
thesaurus file unless it's in my system folder. If I just put it in the
folder that the Word application is in (which the documentation says should
work), I get a "Please locate the thesaurus file" dialog whenever I start
Word Finder up. I could just keep it in my system folder, but I'm trying
to avoid that; I'm already suffering from a serious case of System Folder
Bloat.
I called tech support, but didn't get very much useful information.
The guy who answered ran through the usual helpful suggestions, but
basically couldn't come up with an explanation as to why it doesn't work
right. About all he could come up with was "The computer has a list of
places to look and for some reason it isn't finding the file". I was
tempted to launch into my "Look, bub, I know what a search path is" speech,
but I guess that wouldn't have been fair; the guy was just doing his job.
So, does anybody know why it doesn't work?
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"Arcane? Did you say arcane? It wouldn't be Unix if it wasn't arcane!"feinberg@acsu.buffalo.edu (john a feinberg) (08/01/90)
Somewhere buried in the instruction file for Word Finder, they do mention where to put the Thesaurus file. It needs to be in the system folder, or it will ask you where the file is every time you run it. John Feinberg SUNY Buffalo ps There is an init called 'Fresh Start' that lets you redefine where programs put and/or look for prefrerence documents & the like. It also lets you put inits and cdevs in other folders
a544@mindlink.UUCP (Rick McCormack) (08/05/90)
Could be you have the wounded version of Word Finder DA that comes with MS Word 4.0. Seems my documentation mentioned somewhere that I could get the real thing by sending more money to microlytics. Check the bumf that came with your Word package and see if you spot that little note - or was it in a readme file?
stevens@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Curt Stevens) (08/06/90)
I have the same problem on my vintage macII with 6.0.4 and a billion and a half inits. I just put the thesaurus i nthe system folder :-> ======================================================================== |Curt Stevens (303) 492-1218 | / | arpa: stevens@boulder.colorado.edu| |Univ. of Colorado, Boulder |o o| uucp:{ncar|nbires}!boulder!stevens| |Computer Sci. Dept. ECOT 7-7 | | |-----------------------------------| |Campus Box 430 |\_/| I contradict myself? Very well, I | |Boulder, Colorado 80309 USA | | contradict myself. - Walt Whitman | ======================================================================== ======== | Curt | ========