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Date:	Mon, 21 Sep 1998 17:14:26 PDT
From:	"Gregory W. Smith" <gsmith@well.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
To:	< "scoug-programming@scoug.com" > scoug-programming@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-Programming: More REXX... Or Possibly Other Tools

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On Mon, 21 Sep 1998 00:06:31 PDT, Robert Blair wrote:
>** Reply to note from scoug-programming@scoug.com Sun, 20 Sep 1998 00:08:20 PDT
>
>> Except these are not program objects. These are data files.
>
>You don't quite understand the object associations so I hope this will help.
>The data files don't have associations, the program objects have associations.
>
>> I fixed half a gazillion HTML files so that they now open
>> Netscape when I double click on them. Before, the Java applet viewer
>> would launch. The applet viewer isn't very useful when I am working on
>> my Web pages.
>
>Check the "OPEN AS" menu to see all the program object associations. If there
>are only Netscape and JAVA then do the following. If there are more than those
>two then include them in the following procedure.
>
>1. Go to the Netscape program object and delete the HTML association.
>2. Go to the JAVA applet program object and delete the HTML association.
>3. Go to the Netscape program object and add the HTML association.
> This will now be what is launched when you double click on a HTML file.
>4. If you want, go to the JAVA applet program object and add the HTML file.
> I do this so it is on the "OPEN AS" menu selection.
>
>Doing this will change all HTML files in the system to the new open order.

This is about four times as much work as what I did to fix the
associations for HTML files. I used ASSOEDIT to make one change --
without having to cange any program objects. When I launched ASSOEDIT,
I went to the Associations menu and selected "Associations by file
Filter". In the Association Filters window, I then went down the left
hand list box and selected *.HTML which then showed the associations in
the second "Associated with (first is default):" list box:

Java Applet Viewer from HTML
Editor for Java
Netscape Navigator for OS/2 (LAN)
OS/2 System Editor

I used my mouse to select Netscape and then clicked on the "Make
default" button. When I committed the change and closed ASSOEDIT,
double clicking on a HTML file would then launch Netscape.

>> I still have another half a gazillion GIF and JPG files with
>> associations that I don't like. When I double click on the file, the
>> OS/2 Image viewer launches. I want PMView to launch instead so I can
>> do simple image editing while working on the graphics for web pages
>
>Repeat the above for the program objects that are associated with the GIF
>and JPG file types.

I also used ASSOEDIT to chagne the GIF and JPG file assocations which
were limited to the two associations: "Image Viewer" and "PMView".
But this change did absolutely nothing for the default double click
actions for these file types. I even went so far as to delete the
"Image viewer" association from the *.GIF files and it is still the
default "Open as" menu item for GIF files.

>Robert Blair
>blairra@tstonramp.com

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