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- From: aggie@wealthy.ocean.fsu.edu (I R A Aggie)
- Subject: Re: setting file search paths?
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- References: <93Jan27.104254est.47975@neat.cs.toronto.edu>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 16:56:21 GMT
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- In article <93Jan27.104254est.47975@neat.cs.toronto.edu>,
- hector@cs.toronto.edu (Hector Levesque) wrote:
- >
- > There is an INIT at Umich called "setpaths" which apparently allows any
- > application looking for a file (either in the System folder or in the same
- > folder as the application) to find it elsewhere, in up to 5 other
- > user-specified locations. Sounds almost too good to be true for reorganizing
- > directories, but the INIT dates from 1987, and does not seem to work with
- > System 7. Does it really work? Have there been updates, or are there other
- > utilities that do similar things?
-
- DFaultD (v2.22) will do something similar. It allows you to specify for
- each and every application that you have a different default folder to
- start an open dialog box. Probably on sumex-aim.stanford.edu
- (/info-mac/cp) and mac.archive.umich.edu (???).
-
- James
-