Re: SS view opens notepad instead of printing to stdout or -O file

From: Joe Masters (joe.masters_at_dontspamme.com)
Date: 04/21/04


Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 22:14:18 -0700

Maybe it's something that textpad or some other application did to your
Windows settings. Have you tried the view on other systems that are more
'vanilla'?

Joe

"Gunnar Grim" <a.b@c.d> wrote in message
news:uD9v9xVIEHA.3476@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> As I wrote in my previous message, I have removed the Editor setting,
> which wasn't pointing at Notepad anyway. Only viewing ".txt" files cause
> Notepad to be opened, all other types of files are correctly printed to
> the console. I don't even have Notepad associated with ".txt" files in
> general. I have searched through srcsafe.ini and ss.ini for occurancies
> of "txt" and there are no associations to be found. When I right click
> on the file in the SS Explorer, it asks me if I want to view it with the
> SourceSafe editor or the registered application, which is correctly
> stated to be TextPad. No mention of Notepad anywhere except in the list
> of file extensions that are always opened with Notepad, but txt is not
> in that list. Strange!
>
> Joe Masters wrote:
> > There must be some setting in your srcsafe.ini or ss.ini file that's
doing
> > this. When I use "ss view <filename>", the contents are typed on the
console
> > as you described your old one did. Have you set the Editor
initialization
> > variable, or made some setting change for the view command in the
> > srcsafe.ini or ss.ini files?
> >



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