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From: markz@microsoft.UUCP (Mark Zbiokowski)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: RE: wordstar finding overlays in current directory
Message-ID: <8657@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 27-Sep-83 19:15:26 EDT
Article-I.D.: microsof.8657
Posted: Tue Sep 27 19:15:26 1983
Date-Received: Thu, 29-Sep-83 00:32:31 EDT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation
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The reason WORDSTAR looks only in the current directory for it's overlays is
that it is using the old-style (and extremely limited) FCBs for all I/O.  The
FCBs have only enough room in them for a file name and not a directory
specification; restricting them to work in the current directory only
is a reasonable extention of their  function for hierarchical file systems.

Using ASSIGN is a dangerous proposition; it's behaviour is sometimes
not as expected.