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From: scasterg@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Stuart M Castergine)
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Subject: Re: DA launches changing current path
Message-ID: <1991Jun18.042154.5252@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 18 Jun 91 04:21:54 GMT
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In article <1991Jun11.231121.3918@desire.wright.edu> jmatthews@desire.wright.edu writes:
>In article <1991Jun11.144202.9164@cs.uri.edu>, reynhout@cs.uri.edu (Andrew Reynhout) writes:
>>    Since the switch to sys7, everytime I launch a DA, the current path is
>> changed to the Apple Menu Items folder.  This is most noticeable in DAs like
>> sigmaEdit (a text editor) that open a SFdialog when they launch.
>
>I've noticed this too. Very annoying with one's favorite DA text editor and
>terminal program. A QuicKeys2 Sequence works well to fix this: first a menu
>QuicKey to bring up the DA then a Location (Extension) QuicKey to set the
>Standard File location. Viola, DA opens with Standard File pointing to the
>folder of choice. I wish there was a cheaper alternative.

How aobut this: Put your DA in your folder of choice, and put an alias
of it in the Apple Menu Items Folder.


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scasterg@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu  Stuart M Castergine
"Step by step they were led to practices which disposed to vice -- the
lounge, the bath, the elegant banquet. All this in their ignorance
they called civilisation, when it was but part of their servitude."