[Javascript] Re: Opening file in another app

Peter Brunone peter at brunone.com
Thu Oct 18 21:44:57 CDT 2001


|What type of registry tweaks?

	The kind that will make UltraEdit the primary (default) editor for opening
text files.  This can be done through Windows Explorer, but most people
won't already have it set up this way.

|-----Original Message-----
|From: javascript-admin at LaTech.edu [mailto:javascript-admin at LaTech.edu]On
|Behalf Of phumes1 at home.com
|Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 9:20 PM
|To: javascript at LaTech.edu
|Subject: RE: [Javascript] Re: Opening file in another app
|
|
|At 08:11 PM 10/18/01 -0500, you wrote:
|
|>         Ah so.
|>
|>         If you want a clicked file to open in UltraEdit, then it
|must be the
|>primary app registered for that file type.
|
|It is.
|
|>Basically, you're not going to
|>be able to do this without telling all of your users to make registry
|>tweaks... which probably won't happen.
|
|What type of registry tweaks?
|
|>|-----Original Message-----
|>|From: javascript-admin at LaTech.edu [mailto:javascript-admin at LaTech.edu]On
|>|Behalf Of phumes1 at home.com
|>|Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 6:11 PM
|>|To: javascript at LaTech.edu
|>|Subject: Re: [Javascript] Re: Opening file in another app
|>|
|>|
|>|
|>|UltraEdit is setup to open .txt and .dat file extensions. I'm
|not sure how
|>|to get it to open up in UltraEdit from a link
|>|with my page?
|>|
|>|
|>|At 04:45 PM 10/18/01 -0500, you wrote:
|>|
|>|>     If the user has an application registered to handle the
|>|pertinent file
|>|>type, then it will be opened in that application.  You can't
|>|really control
|>|>this from the server (although you can force it to save instead
|of opening
|>|>by pushing an unknown mimetype).
|>|>
|>|>----- Original Message -----
|>|>From: <phumes1 at home.com>
|>|>To: <javascript at LaTech.edu>
|>|>Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 4:08 PM
|>|>Subject: [Javascript] Re: Opening file in another app
|>|>
|>|>
|>|>|
|>|>| I have a list of files which have <a href"">...</a> around
|them. When a
|>|>| user clicks on a link, how can I have that "filename" open in
|>|UltraEdit or
|>|>| WordPad on the users PC? Has anyone done anything like this?
|>|>|
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