Processing Compass data files

[Olly Betts]

On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 02:56:16PM +0000, Wookey wrote:
> On Tue 29 Oct, Graham Mullan wrote:
> > This is probably a stupid question, but "How?"
> > 
> > You don't get a "process" option on right clicking, changing the extension
> > doesn't help and using "open with" also seems to be a blind alley.
> 
> hmm, OK - that doesn't fit too well into the windows explorer interface.
> the corect answer is 'type cavern filename.dat' at your command prompt' but
> if you never use one of those that's not terribly handy.

The easiest way is to create a one line survex file which just contains:

*include "filename.dat"

> Presumably your .dat files are currently associated with compass and you
> don't want to change that default?

There should be an "Open with Survex" (or cavern) option on the
right-click menu, like there is for opening PLT files in Aven.  But I've
not got around to adding one yet (I need to get the file icons for DAT
and MAK files too).
  
Cheers,
    Olly