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Date:	Sat, 2 Nov 2002 20:21:19 PST7
From:	Harry Chris Motin <hmotin@attglobal.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: data association

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Wayne:

What's going on here is that both the OS/2 System Editor and your MS
Word executable have "*.DOC" under the "Current names" section of the
"association tab" of their respective properties notebook. Check it out
and see. Go to the association tab of the properties notebook of the
System Editor and of MS Word.

You can associate the same document type with more than one executable
program. However, one program takes precedence over the others, when you
double click on that type of data file. In your particular case, the
System Editor comes first. Don't quote me on this, but I believe it's
because it was the first executable on your system that had "*.DOC" as a
current name association. Later, you added the MS Word executable.
Again, do not quote me, but I believe that you can fix this problem by
reording the associations in the System Editor. That is, remove the
"*.DOC" association from the System Editor and then put it back it, but
as the last association. Therefore, the current name section will look
something like this:

*.HTM
*.HTML
*.TXT
*.DOC

You can get an OS/2 program called "Association Editor". Search for it
on Hobbes: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/ Use "Association Editor" as the
search phase. This program will allow you to more easily manage and/or
change your file associations.

HCM
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waynec@linkline.com wrote:
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> I have OfficePro installed on my Warp 4 fp15 system. It seems to me that
> things used to be set up so that if I clicked on an xxxx.doc file, it would
> automatically launch MS Word to edit the file. Now I get the OS/2 system
> editor. Why?
>
> If I rightt-click on the data file (xxxx.doc) and check the "type" tab,
> current type is MS Word. For the MS Word program itself, the "type" is
> "executable" and the "association" tab shows "current type" as "MS Word" and
> "current name" as "*.doc".
>
> Tried adding a new type of "doc" to the "type" properties of xxxx.doc, but
> get the same result if I double-click it... the os2 system editor is
> launched.
>
> On the other hand, if I double-click an xxxx.jpg file, it launches a viewer
> (I can't tell which program, though) to show the file, and the properties of
> the data file show a type of "jpg" even though that choice is not on the
> "available types" list.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Wayne
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