RE: Tilde in Program Files directory; ease of use

["Ambos, Paul" PAMBOS@xxxxxxxx]

Your directory symptoms sound familiar. If you make Program Files your
default directory via File | Manage Files | Directories and mouse-clicking,
and then type "dir" on the command line, do you get an actual listing? If
so, then open Windows Explorer (easiest by WindowsKey-e) and right-click on
the folder icon under C: for Program Files, open its Properties, and then
uncheck the Archive attribute, which causes this behavior. (Or otherwise
reset the Archive attribute.) This may solve your problem.
Regards,

Paul Ambos
pambos@xxxxxxxx



> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Patricia M Godfrey [SMTP:pmgodfrey@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent:	Wednesday, March 13, 2002 9:54 PM
> To:	xywrite@xxxxxxxx
> Subject:	Tilde in Program Files directory; ease of use
>
> There are two problems here: 1) home directory vs. using fully qualified
> path names. I'm going to experiment a bit more with that. 2) The ability
> of XyWrite (DOS or Win) to reference C:\ProgramFiles. It's not, as I
> first thought, the tilde. Once I fixed the hyphenation default, so that I
> could type a tilde on the command line, I could do a directory of any
> other folder with a tilde in the short name. But neither XyWrite for DOS
> nor XyWin can read C:\PROGRA~1 correctly. If you type DIR c:\PROGRA~1 on
> the command line, you get a "listing"--with no files listed. If you do
> DIR C:\PROGRA~1\*.* or even C:\PROGRA~1\mqsa (mqsa being the full name of
> one of my subfolders there), I get "File not found."
>