Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!noose.ecn.purdue.edu!mentor.cc.purdue.edu!zeus.mgmt.purdue.edu!landers
From: landers@zeus.mgmt.purdue.edu (Christopher Landers)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Program Item Properties
Message-ID: <1991Apr8.203750.15606@zeus.mgmt.purdue.edu>
Date: 8 Apr 91 20:37:50 GMT
References: <27863@neptune.inf.ethz.ch>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Krannert Graduate School of Management, Purdue University
Lines: 24

In article <27863@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> mqvortru@iiic.ethz.ch (Michael Heide Qvortrup) writes:
>RE: Program-Manager:
>
>In the FM it says on page 91, that I can specify a directory where I want 
>the given application to start in front of the executable for the application 
>(entry>"Commandline"), as long as the applications home directory is on 
>my path.
>
>Now, I want to do this (I hate having data files floating around where they 
>don't belong), but every time I try, ProgMan responds with an "Invalid Path"
>-message!
>
 
Microsoft "Technical" Support calls this "an undocumented feature" (read BUG)
simply hit the OK button in this error box and everything will work fine!

Trust me!  (Just make sure the .exe is in your path, also, this only works 
for Windows applications.)

-- 
   <================================><===============================>
   || Christopher Landers           || PURDUE UNIVERSITY - KRAN 708 ||
   || Krannert Computing Center     || West Lafayette, IN  47907    ||
   <=================== landers@zeus.mgmt.purdue.edu ================>