[Javascript] Re: Opening file in another app

[phumes1]

Yes I know how to do that but I want to open a file within a web browser in 
UltraEdit by clicking on a file.

At 09:44 PM 10/18/01 -0500, you wrote:
>|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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