William Couture wrote:

> On 9/12/06, Alan B. Pearce <A.B.Pearce@rl.ac.uk> wrote:
>>> 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, 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.
> 
> That is correct -- there is no such beast as "find my data file in any
> of these directories".  It must be programmed into the application. 

This thread is a good example for showing why "there is no X" answers are
most often not reliable, un-scientific and mere opinion -- and as such, at
least in the cases where it isn't even possible to show any factual
evidence, are not allowed on this list :)

Gerhard

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