From: eighner AT io DOT com (Lars Eighner) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Please Help! (DJGPP set-up and RHIDE) Date: Sun, 05 Dec 1999 23:05:35 -0600 Organization: Lars Eighner, Author Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <384A2EEB DOT 21B075E1 AT hotmail DOT com> <384B19BF DOT 12B68D1 AT hotmail DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dillinger.io.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: hiram.io.com 944470529 27200 199.170.88.20 (6 Dec 1999 08:55:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse AT io DOT com NNTP-Posting-Date: 6 Dec 1999 08:55:29 GMT X-Newsreader: Yarn 0.92 with YES 0.22 X-ISP: Illuminati Online X-Revision: 1 Originator: eighner AT dillinger-2 DOT io DOT com (Lars Eighner) To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com In our last episode <384B19BF DOT 12B68D1 AT hotmail DOT com>, the lovely and talented knoriko A 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." -- Lars Eighner 700 Hearn #101 Austin TX 78703 eighner AT io DOT com (512) 474-1920 (FAX answers 6th ring) http://www.io.com/%7Eeighner/ bookstore: http://www.io.com/%7Eeighner/bookstore/ "Fanatic: one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."