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From: santo@utcsri.UUCP (Santo Visconti)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Word Star Query
Message-ID: <2608@utcsri.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 22-Apr-86 10:57:18 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr 22 10:57:18 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 22-Apr-86 11:55:32 EST
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Reply-To: santo@utcsri.UUCP (Santo Visconti)
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Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
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Keywords: Wordstar, MS/PC DOS, Subdirectories
Summary: 

Here is a method for using Wordstar to edit files in any directory.

This method is known to work for version 3.30p of Wordstar, and PCDOS 3.1.
I would expect it to work with other version of Wordstar as well.
The trick is to use the DOS subst command to create the appearance
of a new drive.

Add the following line to config.sys

lastdrive=z

This tells DOS that there are 26 drives, A thru Z

Add the following line to autoexec.bat

subst w:=c:\ws

Your Wordstar system files are in the directory c:\ws and all
references to drive w: will be directed to c:\ws.

NOW reintstall Wordstar and chose menu E (custom Wordstar features)
then chose R (system disk drive) and tell Wordstar to look for the
system files on drive 23 (W).

Make sure the the new ws.com file is in your path somewhere.
Either add ws.com to a directory which is already searched,
(such as c:\bin on my disk) or add c:\ws to your path.
Again in autoexec.bat add:

path=c:\ws\

You may now (after rebooting) edit a file in any subdirectory.
I have used this method for a long time without problems.
-- 
David B. Macdonald (guest of santo@utcsri )
{watmath,ihnp4,allegra}!utcsri!utflis!macdon      macdon%utflis@TORONTO