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- From: s902114@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Zen [Stuart Bishop])
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Viewing new .inf documents (including redbooks)
- Date: 15 Nov 1992 23:41:40 GMT
- Organization: RMIT Computer Centre
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- Thomas Permutt <TPERMUTT@UMAB.BITNET> writes:
-
- :)>Does anyone know if there is a smarter way to do this? I'm trying not to
- :)>mix any new stuff in with the original OS/2 distribution; that way, if I
- :)>have to reinstall, I don't lose anything I've added. As a result, I
- :)>don't put new .inf files in c:\os2\books (where the command reference,
- :)>etc. reside), but in a directory I created on a different partition. Is
- :)>there any easy way to make any .inf file I dump in that directory
- :)>automatically use view.exe when double-clicked? Or do I have to change
- :)>them all individually, as I've been doing?
- :)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.
-
- :)By the way, you might consider keeping your .inf files where they are and
- :)putting shadows of them in Book. Then you get it both ways: they are safe
- :)from reinstallation, but they are also where OS/2 expects them to be. This
- :)is not needed to get double-click to work properly. Rather, the advantage,
- :)I think, is that the "search all libraries" function will look at them. Of
- :)course, this can also be achieved, I think, by adding the place where they
- :)stay to the "Bookshelf" in config.sys.
-
- The way I organize *MY* .inf books is to have a program object for each
- book in my Information folder.
- Program name: view.exe
- Parameters: Filename.inf
-
- You can just ctrl-right drag to copy another and just change the name of
- the book in the parameters. This way, you also lose out on any messy
- problems with having books called cmdref.inf or gs87872a.inf (whatever the
- silly nameing strategy is for the redbooks.) The program object can be
- renamed without altering the actual .inf filename.
-
- I think that this was the way I found my Command Reference and REXX
- reference when I first loaded OS/2.
-
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