Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 00:39:42 -0500
From: Krogg <none@of.your.business>
To: vk@ludd.luth.se
Subject: editing *.html in win95

VK,I think from the posts that i have seen that you want to be able to
edit an html file with win95 but the default app for *.html is not
note pad or a text editor,likely netscape or MSIE.

I will assume that you do not know anything about win95 for the
explination of this so as not to leave out any details.

First,You need to use "Explorer" and know about it some to get
full advantage of win95 and to set up needed file extentions
to be opened like you want instead of defaultly....

click on the [Start] button and click the [run] option
very close to the bottom of the menu.a dialog box will open,
type "explorer" there without the quotes.a nice program will
pop up,You will probly reconize the paradigm that is presented
by the gui.If Explorer is running in default configuration then
things will be "idiot proof" you arent an idiot so you will
want to change some things to make things easier for the expert 
you are.


click on the menu titled "view" at the top and make sure that
the items "Toolbar" and "Status bar" and "Details" are "checked".

then go back to that same menu and click on options at the bottom 
of the list.

you will see some check boxes,they need to look like this
---------------------------------------------------------------------
[x] show all files

[ ] Hide files of these types

,---------------------.
|Hidden Files         |
|.dll                 |
|.sys                 |
|bla                  |
|bla                  |
|bla                  |
|bla                  |
`---------------------'
[x] Display the full MS-DOS path in the title bar

[ ] Hide MS-DOS file extentions for filetypes that are registered

[x] Include description bar for right and left panes
---------------------------------------------------------------------

when you make it look like this look near the top of the
options dialog and see the tabs,you are on the [View] tab
now click on the [File Types] tab.

you should see a listing of the file types reconised by your
system...titled "Resistered file types",you will want to
look through the list and find the one for html documents.
it will likely be labeled something like "Hypertext Document"
or something of that nature,It will have an icon beside it
that looks like the icon for the Html file that you are wanting
to edit.

Anyway,when you find it,click on it and click on the [Edit]
button to the right of the listing.Another box will appear
that will allow you to make cool stuff happen.

at the bottom you will see a list titled "Actions".You will
see one action in bold,that means that if you double click
on that type of file this action will be done by default,
it will probly be the action [OPEN] and you could edit
that action to open the html document with a text editor
but thats not really using this to your real advantage.
You could have done that in another easier way,but you
are a expert and you want power,so click on the [NEW] 
button at the bottom.

yet another box will appear,
In the top text box labled "Action:" 
type "Edit" without the quotes and in the
bottom box labled "applicaton used to perform action:" 
type "C:\windows\notepad.exe" with quotes and click [OK]
then click [CLose]
then click [Close]

now find your file that you want to "edit" and all you
ever have to do is _Right_click on the file and 
chose edit from the menu and you are there....


Be cool.

   Krogg.

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