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DOS APPEND Command Ignores Path Statement
DocumentID: 650069
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 8:28:56 PM

The information in this document applies to:
WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Symptoms: The customer wanted to be able to use his supplemental dictionary from 5.0 with 5.1, so we retrieved his supplemental dictionary into 5.1 and saved it in another directory. We went in and set the path to the supplemental dictionary in setup, then we ran the spell check on the supplemental dictionary file that was still on the screen. The speller stopped on all of the words. So we added each word to the dictionary and tried it again. This time it went past all of the words. So we copied the new supplemental dictionary to the directory where he really wanted it, and changed the path in the setup menu, and ran the spell check on the same file again, and it stopped on each word again. We double checked the path in setup and made sure that the supplemental dictionary was really where we told WP it was, and it was. We added all the words to the dictionary again. And spell checked again and it worked.

Another user was having difficulty using a device driver called File Path made by SDA associates. On all releases of WP 5.1 prior to 1/19/90, he was able to use this device driver to allow him access to multiple sub-directories for his documents. The 01/19/90 WP release does not allow him to do this.

In another case, the user's file changes were not always saving. The user answered yes to replace the file, it acted as if it had saved, but no changes were held. The list files showed the original date of creation (it had not been altered). She has only noticed this in 5.1 with Dos 4.01.

Still another user installed 5.1 and created macros. When he created a macro and tried to edit the macro it said "Unknown Major File Version WP.MRS". We thought the 5.0 .MRS file was in the 5.1 directory, but the WP.MRS file in the 5.1 directory was dated 11-6-89 and the KEYS.MRS file was the same. The user wondered if the DOS append path was causing the problem with his .MRS file in 5.1 since the WP and Library directories were in the path. Solutions: Please check his DOS APPEND statement. Several customers using 4.0 DOS have brought to our attention that the APPEND statement is being read and the actual path statement is being ignored. They corrected this by eliminating the APPEND statement from the AUTOEXEC.BAT. This would account for his dictionary not being found.

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