Re: nt file types

WF Software wrote: > > In article <700amh$cg2$1@news.xmission.com>, NGuffey@jdriscoll.com (Nicole > Guffey) wrote: > > > > > Annoying behavior on NT: Anytime I open a *.sql file through Informix > > SQLEditor tool, all *.sql files are reregestered to always open with the > > Informix SQLEditor tool, regardless of what they were previously > > registered > > to open with. I work in MSSQL, Oracle, Sybase and Informix, so it is > > really > > annoying to have all *.sql files open with the Informix tool. Can this > > be > > turned off somewhere? > > > > Thank you, > > Nicole Guffey > > DBA > > J. Driscoll & Associates > > nguffey@jdriscoll.com > > > > > I doubt it, as far as NT is concerned a sql file is a sql file, and it > will open it with what ever the last entry in the registry was. Now if > you were using a proper operating system you can get round that sort on > restriction :-)) > > Paul Watson # I don't suffer from > WF Software Ltd. # stress, I'm just > Tel. (+44) 1436 674729 # a carrier > Fax. (+44) 1436 678693 # > www.wfsoftware.co.uk If it works the way Windoze 95 does, in Explorer, try holding down the SHIFT key and right-clicking the file. You will see a slightly different menu from the usual right-click, it contains "Open with...". Select that and choose what you like from the list, but be sure to clear the little box that says "always open files of this type with this application" or some such. If you hold your mouse upside down it might work on alternate Mondays. -- Peter Lancashire Information Systems Specialist, Bayer plc Eastern Way, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP32 7AH, UK Tel: +44-1635-562258, Fax: +44-1635-562281 --- If all else fails, read the instructions and the release notes. Join Infuse, the UK Informix User Group at http://www.infuse.org.uk/ ---