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From: pnl@hpfinote.HP.COM (Peter Lim)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: WIN 3.0 *.INI files
Message-ID: <18950037@hpfinote.HP.COM>
Date: 27 Sep 90 19:10:08 GMT
References: <9848.5350.forumexp@mts.rpi.edu>
Organization: Hewlett Packard CICD
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> > LAIH@QUCDN.QueensU.CA 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
> > 
> 
>       This strategy does work.  However, when I do it I lose the
> Winword-specific icon and get a generic icon in Program Manager.  Any ideas as
> to how to keep the program-specific icon?
>
Well, depends on what you want to do exactly. If you have a word data
file say in C:\WINDOWS\WORD\DATA\ called MYTEXT.DOC. And you want to
execute WORD from PM on that file, all you have to do is specify the
COMMAND LINE in the properties for that item as :
C:\WINDOWS\WORD\DATA\MYTEXT.DOC. Then, everything will take care of
themselves.


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