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From: "Ben A L Jemmett" <bal.jemmett@ukonline.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Best free code editors?
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"L. Ross Raszewski" <lraszewski@loyola.edu> wrote in message
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> [file associations]
> It could. This is a feature of the installer, not the software. It's
> also a feature totally specific to windows. You stick about six lines
> in the registry, and you can do this with *any* program.


Why does everyone say this involves fiddling with the registry?  I say a
review of XP recently which was impressed that MS 'finally' implemented a
dialog box to set these associations for you (Folder Options->File Types,
then Advanced if you want more options).  But it's been there since Windows
95...

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