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From: jimb@amdcad.UUCP (Jim Budler)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: wordstar pathnames
Message-ID: <13112@amdcad.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 23-Sep-86 01:48:28 EDT
Article-I.D.: amdcad.13112
Posted: Tue Sep 23 01:48:28 1986
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Reply-To: jimb@amdcad.UUCP (Jim Budler)
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In article <8609182052.AA24629@cory.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:

+---------------
| >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
+---------------
The point is that wordstar is in \ws.
To edit autoexec.bat I have to copy it to \ws, edit it there, copy it
back. 
There are MANY excellent PC programs which are STILL limited in this
manner.

Non-HFS programs on the Mac are just as compatible. Just leave everything
in the root , not in folders, most still work. I used my non HFS
c compiler for months after HFS this way. (The HFS version was available,
but I'd lazed out on getting it.) I have many non-HFS programs I can
still use in this manner.

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