Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/12/06/05:09:50
In our last episode <384B19BF DOT 12B68D1 AT hotmail DOT com>,
the lovely and talented knoriko A <knoriko_a AT hotmail DOT com>
broadcast on comp.os.msdos.djgpp:
|Ur, I don't understand... Am I wrong in trying to open the file
|"readme.1st" in Explorer?
No, you are not wrong, except for choosing to use Explorer in the
first place. Explorer is too stupid to recognize a flat text
file that doesn't have a .txt extension. You need a more
powerful browser. I'd suggest lynx, which has, I believe
been ported to each of the several versions of Windows.
It has a powerful filemanager and you can easily configure
it to run bash when you hit ! and to call your favorite editor
when you hit e. If lynx doesn't recognize a file extension,
it will try faithfully to open the document as text.
Source is available for lynx, but I haven't tried to compile
it under djgpp since the binary worked for me "out of the box."
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