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Date:	Sun, 3 Nov 2002 22:16:15 PST7
From:	waynec@linkline.com
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: data association

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Thanks, Harry, that does indeed appear to be the problem! That should have
occurred to me, I feel kinda dumb. I wasn't able to move *.doc to the bottom
of the list, however, it appears to be placed alphabetically in the list so
I'll need to remove it, which is not a problem.

Harry Chris Motin writes:

> 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 Again, do not quote me, but I believe that you can fix this problem by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.
>

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