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Hello there,
I use defined paths which point to specific substituted drives (A-Z), e.g.
PATH=\;G:\WP;..;C:.;C:\;D:\;U:\;C:\DOS;D:\NU;E:\;R:\;K:\;P:\;Q:.
As can be seen some of these paths look peculiar: '\', '..', 'C:.'.
These are ment for general purposes:
'\' means the root of the current logical or substituted drive.
'..' means the parent subdirectory of any subdirectory; if already in the root
of a (substituted) drive it has no effect.
'C:.' means the current directory on C: if on another drive.
A problem with WordPerfect 4.2 now occurs. WP crashes with a path specification
of '..' if this points to a root directory (not another subdirectory)
and the specification '\' does not have any effect with WP if its files
reside in the root of the current substituted drive: WP does not find them.
So, as in the sample above, the explicit path to WP (now a subdirectory itself)
should be given before '..'.
Is this known to you? I would like to hear of similar problems.
Jim Groeneveld.
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