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- From: djbpitt+@pitt.edu (David J Birnbaum)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Viewing new .inf documents (including redbooks)
- Message-ID: <9537@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 20:11:36 GMT
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- >The trouble is the Command Reference object in Information. It associates
- >view.exe with *.inf, but with parameter cmdref.inf. Therefore opening the
- >file xxx.inf produces, by default,
- > view.exe xxx.inf cmdref.inf or
- > view.exe cmdref.inf xxx.inf , I am not sure which.
- >In either case, view with two arguments interprets one as a file and the
- >other as a topic, producing the "topic not found" message.
- >
- >I can see no reason for Command Reference to be set up this way; I think it
- >is just wrong. Removing the *.inf association from the Command Reference
- >object makes everything work as it should.
-
- When I removed the parameters line from the Command Reference object and
- then tried double-clicking on this object, it refused to open, giving me
- an error message about needing a parameter of some sort. I'm not sure
- why the parameter entry for the Command Reference object should affect
- viewing other *.inf files; there is no parameter specified for the
- view.exe object.
-
- --David
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