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From: roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Word Finder can't find thesaurus file
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Date: 31 Jul 90 16:38:14 GMT
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	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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