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From: jls@hsv3.UUCP (James Seidman)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: WIN 3.0 *.INI files
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Date: 25 Sep 90 18:30:26 GMT
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In article <90268.001028LAIH@QUCDN.BITNET> LAIH@QUCDN.QueensU.CA (Hubert Lai) writes:
>3) As for your final question, which was how to change default directories
>when executing Windows applications from the Program Manager.  That is easy
>(and is actually documented in the manual).  When specifying the COMMAND
>LINE in the properties for that item, enter something like:
>
>C:\WINDOWS\WORD\DATA\WINWORD.EXE

The problem with this approach is that then *all* future apps opened will
have that directory as the current one.  I wish there were some way (and
I'm sure it's trivial to write a little app to do this) to just set the
default current directory.

The reason I want this is that I like to, before entering windows, cd to
the directory I plan to work in.  Then, when I start windows, all my
non-windows apps will start up in that directory (of course, this only
works when that directory is on a different disk than the one you run
Windows from).  This works fine until I run a Windows app which changes
the directory on the disk I'm working on, at which point *that* becomes
the default directory for all subsequent non-Windows apps.

What I did on my computer at home (which has only one partition, since
it's running DOS 4.01) was do a "SUBST d: c:\".  I then run Windows off
of D:, have the properties for all my program items specify absolute
paths with D:, but have all my non-Windows apps start up with "C:." as
the directory.  This solves at least part of the problem.
-- 
Jim Seidman (Drax), the accidental engineer.
"There's a certain freedom to being completely screwed." - The Freshman
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