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From: palmer@oodis01.ARPA (Jim Palmer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Joy of MSDOS (now APPEND.COM)
Message-ID: <75@oodis01.ARPA>
Date: 23 Mar 88 15:52:45 GMT
References: <3aee6925.44e6@apollo.uucp> <9429@sunybcs.UUCP>
Reply-To: palmer@oodis01.UUCP (Jim Palmer)
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc
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Keywords: append
Summary: Use the external MS-DOS command APPEND.COM

In article <9429@sunybcs.UUCP> ugfailau@sunybcs.UUCP (Fai Lau) writes:
>	Hummmm, Dos 3.20 has been good to me in that it does look
>through the whole path for a file to be executed. One thing though,
>when an executable looks for a "slave" file (like an overlay),
>it doesn't even know that the path exists!!!

MS-DOS (Don't know about PC-DOS) 3.2 added an external command APPEND.COM
which works just like PATH only it's the 'path' which is searched for overlay
files.  Works great.  Finally I can use Wordstar from every directory on my
harddisk!  Try it, you'll like it.   (I promise not to say RTFM 8^)  oops . .

Flames regarding {Ne,Wo}rdStar may be directed to /dev/null
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