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Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 01:14:46 PDT
From: "T.P. van der Mey" <T.P.vd.Mey@net.HCC.nl >
Reply-To: scoug-help@scoug.com
To: scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject: SCOUG-Help: notepad

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Greetings,

Peter Skye wrote:

> T.P. van der Mey wrote:
> >
> > Whenever I create a plain text file and place its icon on
> > the desktop it associates the file with the WINOS/2 notepad.
>
> How are you creating these text files? What is the size of their
> extended attributes (do a DIR or go to Properties..File..page2)?
>
> > I have associates all TXT files with EEE.exe by means of
> > Henk kelder's Assoedit but when I look under "menu" in
> > the properties of the text file NOTEPAD is list as the first
> > choice under ~open as . In the properties menu it is
> > impossible to delete this reference to NOTEPAD.
>
> For any specific file: Go to the file's Properties..Menu and click on
> the ^Open as line to highlight it. Then click on the Properties
> line to highlight it also. Then click on the Properties button. Then
> under Default action choose whatever program you want. Then click
> OK .
>

Thanks that works. The particular file now starts up in the EEE editor as I
want it to.

>
> To completely eliminate the Note Pad associations, go to its Properties
> menu and look under the Associations tab. (On my system, Note Pad is on
> the desktop under Programs..Windows Programs. Remove all the Type and
> Extension associations and Note Pad won't be associated with your files
> any more.)
>

In my Notepad.exe object there are no file types in the association menu...

--
Regards,

Tjalco P. van der Mey
Presently at:
Burg. Bloemersstraat 8
7271DC Borculo
The Netherlands

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