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From: km@emory.UUCP (Ken Mandelberg)
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Subject: How do you use an XT?
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Date: Wed, 18-Apr-84 03:31:43 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr 18 03:31:43 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 18-Apr-84 19:15:14 EST
Organization: Math & Computer Science, Emory University, Atlanta
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My idea of how to organize files is to put the object code
for tools in one or more directories, set my search path
to find them, and start a project node in a new directory.
Hardly a new idea.

I just started working with an XT with one floppy and one
winchester. I am determined not to use the floppy (except
for backups, etc).

My first (and so far only) idea was to load all my tools
(compilers, wordprocessors, etc) in the root directory,
put \ in my path and cd elsewhere. Unfortunately some of
the utilities fail to find their auxiliary files (which
do live in \). It looks like these programs were written
before DOS had a file hierarchy and were only expecting
to search one directory per disk. cd makes it look like
the current directory (not \) is that directory, and
the search fails.

It also does not work to "assign" an additional disk name
(like a:) to the winchester, and install the utilities on a:.
My cd on c: (the winchester) moves the top of a: down with it.

Any suggestions.

Ken Mandelberg
Emory University
Dept of Math and CS
Atlanta, Ga 30322

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