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From: wdlee@walt.cc.utexas.edu (David Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Associating Files with Applications
Keywords: WIN3
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Date: 21 Jul 90 16:47:18 GMT
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Has anyone noticed that the caret (^) fails to operate as advertised
when placed in the [Extensions] section of WIN.INI? The caret is intended
to represent the file name (no extension). However, I find that the caret
passes BOTH the filename and extension, and also ignores any extension
that I explicitly place in WIN.INI. i.e.
txt=edit ^.txt
txt=edit ^
txt=edit ^.FOO
EACH of the above would have the same effect when placed in WIN.INI.
Can you shed some light on this?
Dave.