> >AFAICR there is also a much more rarely used ***DATA***
>>path feature available somewhere in the dark arcanery
>>of the MSDOS world.

> NO - that is what myself, and at least one other said,

I don't care how many people have said it :-)
I understand completely what they are saying.
Most don't actually seem to hear what I am aying though - present 
company excepted I'm sure :-).
But, It's still what I recall. I can remmeber the person introducing 
the feature doing so and warning about it - I just can't remember what 
the feature was.

> while individual
> programs may have used such a variable to define where to find data 
> files,
> this HAS NOT been a specific feature of MSDOS, and had to be 
> programmed into
> the application to find the variable, and search the paths it found 
> therein.

again again - that's NOT my recollection.
I'm well aware that this feature is not well known or used - but I 
think it exists somewhere.


        Russell

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