Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 12:22:31 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Please Help! (DJGPP set-up and RHIDE)
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On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, knoriko A wrote:

> Ur, I don't understand...  Am I wrong in trying to open the file
> "readme.1st" in Explorer?

The only answer to this is "it depends": it depends on how your
system is configured.

Windows is not as smart as you think, it opens the files by consulting
the so-called file association list, whereby each file-name extension
is associated with an application that can open files with that
extension.  By default, the extension ".1st" is not associated with
anything (guess all those MS programmers never read README.1ST
files...).  You could either associate it with any text browser you
fancy, or right-click on the file name and force Windows to use a
specific application for that file.