Author: pavel
Date: 06:14:52 08/08/00
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On August 07, 2000 at 23:54:01, Pete Galati wrote: >On August 07, 2000 at 23:26:33, Peter Skinner wrote: > >>On August 07, 2000 at 23:11:43, pavel wrote: >> >>>okay I dont know if its off-topic or on-topic...........kinda confused. >>>but I will post it anyways. ;) >>> last night i downloaded TSCP souce code from Tom's page. >>>i wanted to see how simple it is.....and learn some programing ofcourse ;) >>>what i did was ,when I "double clicked" the main.c file it prompt for what kinda >>>viewer to open this file. I used "notepad" but I forgot to uncheck "use it all >>>the time". as a matter of fact from now on all my source file with .c extension >>>has a "notepad icon and its default now. >>> >>>my questions are >>> >>>will there be any problem with that? >>>can I undo it? coz i dont wanna make it default. >>> >>>thanku >>>pave >> >>I had the same problem under Windows, but when I installed a C++ program, it >>simply took over the file extention permissions... > >It's nice that it wrestled the associations away for you. > >With TSCP, probably all the .c and .h files should be small enough that Notepad >can handle it. But as I recall, just about everything from Crafty will be too >big for the Notepad. > >I use a free programming editor called PFE for almost everything that's ascii >text these days. I have no idea where you can find a download of the 32bit >verion of PFE by now because the author's webpage disapeared (I think he >graduated). But there are other programming file editors available for free. >VIDE comes to mind, try this link, see if it still works >http://www.objectcentral.com/vide.htm , some people were speaking highly of VIDE >a while back, so it might be better than PFE. > >But Notepad really isn't a very good editor for C progrmming. For working with >C, you could call Notepad a piece of garbage. For doing other things it's >ideal, but not for that. > >To change the file association to something else other than Notepad, in the >Windows Explorer (not talking about the browser), find a .c file, highlight it, >then Shift-Right Click on the file, and you should see a dialog box that will >let you browse for the editor that you want associated with .c (and there's a >box to check for if you want it to always open the .c file) I hope that made >sense, I haven't done it for a long time, but it's mostly that Shift-Right Click >thing you gotta remember. > >Pete
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