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From: stever@tektronix.UUCP (Steven D. Rogers)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: RE: Wordstar & Directories
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Date: Thu, 17-Apr-86 12:43:19 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 17 12:43:19 1986
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Wordstar will not work by itself to find text (or its own
overlay files) in other than the directory it resides in.

However, there are several relatively cheap utilities on
the market that allow you to use Wordstar (and other programs)
from another directory.  These softwares still do not enable
Wordstar to handle pathnames, however it is much more effective
to work from directory containing the text files.

These utilities work in the same manner as the DOS command
path.  Path only works with .BAT, .EXE, and .COM files.

The utility I use is called FilePath by SDA Associates,
P.O. Box 36152, San Jose, CA 95158, 408 281 7747.  It
works great.  I don't know the names of the other ones or
how well they work.

I would think there would be a public domain version of
this utility by now.