"Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], on 26 Dec 2001: > > Unless things have changed since DOS/W3.11.W 95 days when you > double click on an application you have to browse to the > application you desire open said document. Or you have topen the > application first, then the file. >
Your memory was wrong back then, too. Windows anything did not require browsing to the application to open a file. If I wanted to open a .txt file, I double click it. It opens my default text viewer. Sure, you can say "but the person who made it wanted it to open in <program>". Fine. But now if I don't want to use that program, I have to work every time so that it doesn't open in that program. I want to open an html file, I double click it, it launchs mozilla for me. I want to open a .doc, Word opens for me. It's the same exact affect, just achieved differently. For possibilities? Well, since most programs use a 3 or 4 letter extension, though more are possible, and those can be A-Z, 0 - 9, that gives 36 ^ 4 combinations, or 1,697,616. Plus an extension can be more than 4 letters if you really want. -- ICQ: N/A (temporarily) AIM: FlyersR1 9 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ = m
