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- Path: sparky!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!selliott
- From: selliott@cup.portal.com (J Steve Elliott)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Viewing Redbooks from WPS
- Message-ID: <69229@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 07:11:11 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <BxGtsM.2wD@news.iastate.edu>
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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've had this problem before too. The way I worked got around it was to copy
- an existing view.exe object, say the command reference from the information
- folder, and then renamed it to whatever I wish to view. Finally, open settings
- and change the parameters to point to the .inf file you want to view.
-
- Steve Elliott
-