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Here is some interesting info submitted by user John DeHaven:
Here's a better way to replace NOTEPAD with VEDIT (It only works with NT/W2K/XP).
It is hard to know what extensions need to be fed to {Config/Assoc file types}. The OS can tell you this way:
1. Open a command-line window (I just can't being myself to call this powerful NT window a "DOS prompt." :-)
2. Enter:
ftype | find /i "notepad"
The OS will give you a list of "file types" that are currently opened with Notepad. (Things like "txtfile" "mnufile" etc.
3. For each file type xxx, enter
ftype xxx="c:\vedit\vpw.exe" "%1"
Now everything that previously was associated with notepad will now be associated with vedit. The advantage over the procedure in the readme is that you don't copy vpw.exe and so it can find the ini files in its home directory.
If you want to know the extensions that are associated with vedit, for each file type xxx, enter:
assoc | find /i "xxx"
To add a new file extension .ext to be associated with vedit, for any associated file type xxx, enter:
assoc .ext=xxx (example: assoc .frp=txtfile)
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Written by John DeHaven; posted by Ted Green
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