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Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Microsoft Word
Message-ID: <14680@sri-arpa.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 16-Dec-83 12:46:00 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 16 12:46:00 1983
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I bought Microsoft WORD.  There is a "program" diskette that contains
a lot of files that is used when WORD is run.  According to the
documentation, program disk files may be placed in any directory as
long as that directory is included in the search path.  So I put the
program disk files on a hard disk in a directory given in the search
path.  Unfortunately that did not work.  The floppy disk version does
not use the search path: it only looks on drive A:.  This is a bug,
according to Microsoft, that will be fixed in later versions.  It did
not do to make A a hard disk volume.  I got around this by using the
assign command to assign A to the hard disk volume that contained the
program files.

Gerry