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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
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Subject: wordstar pathnames
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Date: Thu, 18-Sep-86 16:52:21 EDT
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>Gack!  Last I knew, WordStar STILL won't accept pathnames.  IBM certainly
>did NOT change from flat to hierarchical without any problems.  In general,
>you had to be in the same directory as your files to use them.  And that
>has persisted in many programs, even popular ones.
>-Steve Dorner

	The point is that it was upwardly compatible... you could still give
Wordstar non-path file names.

			-Matt