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From: hls@rwthbs.uucp (H.L. Stahl)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: WFW Default Directory
Message-ID: <1991Jan9.101735.12267@rwthbs.uucp>
Date: 9 Jan 91 10:17:35 GMT
References: <3724@orbit.cts.com> <XJ66u3w163w@hlthnt.UUCP> <10847@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu>
Reply-To: hls@rwthbs.UUCP (Hans-Ludwig Stahl)
Organization: Lehrstuhl fuer Betriebssysteme, RWTH Aachen
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In article <10847@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> todd@uhunix1.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu 
(Todd Ogasawara) writes:
>All you need is one line for this macro. My looks like this:
>	chdir "C:\DOCS"

Another way to do this is to create an (empty) WinWord file, for example
EMPTY.DOC in your preferred DOC directory;  the file should be write 
protected.
Then, in the program managers window, select the WinWord icon and change its
associated program name from "<win-path>WINWORD.EXE" to "<doc-path>EMPTY.DOC"; 
the extension .DOC must be connected to WINWORD.EXE in WIN.INI!
Change its icon by selectting "<win-path>WINWORD.EXE" instead of 
"<doc-path>EMPTY.DOC", and the WinWord icon will still be displayed in
the program managers window.
After that, whenever you start WinWord by double-clicking the icon, WinWord
will start and EMPTY.DOC will be loaded, and all DOC-files will be searched
in your DOC directory first.

Hans-Ludwig Stahl

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