Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site iuvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!inuxc!iuvax!saj From: saj@iuvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Re: DAVONG - (nf) Message-ID: <129@iuvax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 15-Feb-84 15:18:21 EST Article-I.D.: iuvax.129 Posted: Wed Feb 15 15:18:21 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 16-Feb-84 23:58:15 EST Sender: saj@iuvax.UUCP Organization: Indiana U, Bloomington Lines: 28 #R:amd70:-432200:iuvax:1500008:000:971 iuvax!apratt Feb 14 22:30:00 1984 amd70!tc writes: The disk is formatted as four volumes (A:-D:) and the floppies are E: and F:. I keep all my utilities on A:, do a PATH and it finds all them out of any directory of any volume (even WORDSTAR and its overlays). ---------- I encourage you not to be fooled: WordStar (in all versions incl. 3.0) will *not* follow any path specification for its overlays. WordStar *does* have a byte you can set, telling it what drive to look on for its overlays if it doesn't find them on the "current" drive, but this is not the same thing. It does *not* look at the environment variable "PATH". The program "ws" (or whatever) *is* found by looking at the PATH variable, but the overlays are only searched for in two places: the current directory of the current drive, and the current directory of the drive mentioned in the byte which is assembled into WordStar itself. ---- "Can YOU whistle at 300 baud?" -- Allan Pratt ...decvax!ihnp4!inuxc!iuvax!apratt