Public And Personal Macros Directories On A N

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Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 3:04:50 PM

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WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Symptoms: A network administrator may be concerned about the need to have separate locations for public and personal macros, with the path to the public macros being set in the program's Setup feature. But this forces the users to type the full path to their personal macros directory (since they aren't in the network macros directory), which is inconvenient. Solutions: Customers can use the DOS APPEND {path} /E statement to set a path for nonexecutable files. This will create an environment variable APPEND that functions for nonexecutable files the same as PATH does for .COM and .EXE files. When a macro is invoked, but not found, DOS will search along the path specified in the environment variable APPEND for it. So the user can specify their personal macro directory there, and it will be found. This will also work for ALT{*} (keyboard) macros. Note: Use this option with care. It will work for executing macros, but it can lead to problems when used with certain application programs. Some applications cannot use the APPEND command; you will find that they read files successfully from directories other than the current directory, but they can only create files in the current directory. This results in two copies of files; an edited version in the current directory and the unedited (original) version in the source directory.

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