Consultor Eletrônico

SUMMARY:

When you install Progress version 9.1A in a windows environment you may not able to right button click with the mouse on a .PF file, chose edit and have the text displayed in Notepad.

INFRORMATION:

The reason for this problem is that during the installation of Progress version 9.1a there is an entry to the registry under
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/ProgressFilePF-9.1A/shell/Edit/Command with a typing error. There in the string-value you see that the data reads

"notepad.exe" "%1""

This is an uneven number of quotation marks and wont work.


SOLUTION

You need to use the registry editor, go to:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/ProgressFilePF-9.1A/shell/Edit/Command,
there you first click on the right mouse button on the string value and choose modify.

The data in the string value reads

notepad.exe" "%1"

(note the initial and ending quotation marks are not visible here)

remove one quotation mark, e.g., the one after .exe, so it reads:

notepad.exe "%1"

Then it works.

FURTHER COMMENTS:

This was logged as bug #20000322-002
and it is scheduled to be fixed in V9.1B

This issue will only arise if Progress version 9.1A is the last version installed. If for instance Progress version 9.0B is installed afterwards the registry entry mentioned above will be ignored in favor of the same registry entry under 9.0B


hbackstr 23-Mar-2000

Progress Software Technical Support Note #19619


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