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From: tomr@ashtate (Tom Rombouts)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: PCMag's wsmooth.exe
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Date: 1 Nov 90 17:14:31 GMT
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In article <272E2703.24750@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> riehm@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Carl Riehm) writes:
>I have just downloaded and started to use wsmooth.exe, a windows3 ascii 
>file reader.  Good program except for one very annoying thing:  they aped
>the notepad and made *.txt the default for listing the contents of 
>directories instead of using *.*.  I was able to do a kindergarten hack
>on notepad.exe to change the default of *.txt to *.* but similar attempts on
>wsmooth.exe fail.  Has anybody else been successful?

If someone will post or e-mail the source code (which is provided in
the Nov. 13, 1990 ish of PC Mag) we can tear into it with gusto!  (I
would have keyed it in myself, but my employer prefers me to work on
things that might possibly bring in revenue  :-)  )

(Looking at the code, the change is trivial.  On page 512 on the 
right column (bottom) the variables od_defspec and od_default_extension 
are hard coded to "*.txt".  BTW, I don't know for sure, but it appears
that the first command line argument to WSMOOTH may be a filespec.
A quick test could confirm this in a moment.  If so, a PIF file
could be created to always start WINSMOOTH with a filespec of *.*)


Tom Rombouts  Torrance Techie  tomr@ashtate.A-T.com  V: (213) 538-7108