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From: jmerrill@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Jason Merrill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Desqview default directory
Message-ID: <3846@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 19 Jan 90 20:30:53 GMT
References: <1336@maytag.waterloo.edu>
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
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In article <1336@maytag.waterloo.edu> dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu (Duncan Murdoch) writes:
>Desqview has one very annoying "feature":  when you start up an application
>from the menu, you can specify that it should start in a particular directory,
>or you can say nothing, in which case it will start in the Desqview directory,
>but you can't say that it should start up in the directory you're currently
>working in.

How would you define "the directory you're currently working in"?  To
DESQview, that is always \DV, or wherever you called DESQview from.  If you
open a DOS window and do a CD, it will only change the directory that window
is working in, not a global pointer.