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- From: djbpitt+@pitt.edu (David J Birnbaum)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Viewing new .inf documents (including redbooks)
- Message-ID: <9368@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 21:21:08 GMT
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- >I'm trying to view the Redbooks from the WPS. I have done the following but
- >without success:
- >
- > 1. Created a program object for "VIEW.EXE" in the INFORMATION folder
- > 2. In the settings for the "VIEW" object created in 1, set up an
- > association for "*.inf"
- >
- >Now, when I double click on any of the Redbook objects from the Drives folder, I get a message stating that the topic was not found.
- >
- >What am I doing incorrectly?
-
- I fixed this by opening each of the Redbook objects, opening the
- association settings, and changing the default to view.exe. Your second
- step above makes view.exe appear in the menu for all *.inf objects, but it
- doesn't make it the default. By the way, your first step is unnecessary;
- you can just add *.inf in the original view.exe object that came with
- OS/2, since you don't need a shadow of this in the directory where the
- .inf files live.
-
- Does anyone know if there is a smarter way to do this? I'm trying not to
- mix any new stuff in with the original OS/2 distribution; that way, if I
- have to reinstall, I don't lose anything I've added. As a result, I
- don't put new .inf files in c:\os2\books (where the command reference,
- etc. reside), but in a directory I created on a different partition. Is
- there any easy way to make any .inf file I dump in that directory
- automatically use view.exe when double-clicked? Or do I have to change
- them all individually, as I've been doing?
-
- Thanks,
-
- David
-
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