How to get 'process' option back in Windows (vista)

[Philip Balister]

On 09/27/2013 08:34 AM, Matt Kirby wrote:
> Wookey
> 
> WHAT? Wookey using a Windows based programme.....well I never, what's the
> world coming to? ;-)

I'm pretty sure someone hacked his account.

Philip

> 
> I use Vista all the time and have just tried to replicate what you are
> trying to do.
> 
> As you say, the right click option does provide the 'process' option for
> svx
> files, but it's got to have the .svx file extension for survex to recognise
> it.
> 
> I sometimes forget to put the .svx when opening/naming a new file in
> notepad
> and it defaults to a .txt notepad file. This means survex doesn't recognise
> it as a readable/processable file so when you right click the 'process'
> option isn't there. It also doesn't appear with the survex icon in Windows
> Explorer, this is also the way to find the "whole effing filename including
> extension", right click and press the 'properties' option, the file path
> and
> type are there under the 'General' tab.
> 
> I've tried the wordpad option and pasted one of our Mulu files into it,
> then
> done a 'save as' and put the .svx extension on the end (would otherwise
> default to a .rtf extension). It appears with a survex icon (in  Windows
> Explorer) and allows it to be processed with a right click. It sounds as if
> you have omitted to put the .svx on the end when 'saving as'.
> 
> Hope this helps..........................enjoy your Windows 'experience'
> ;-)
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Matt
> 
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Wookey" <wookey at wookware.org>
> Sent: Friday, September 27, 2013 11:50 AM
> To: "Survex User Group" <survex at survex.com>
> Subject: How to get 'process' option back in Windows (vista)
> 
>> I have had to use Windows (vista) for some data process for 1st time
>> in a decade. Yum. Being a linux person I have very little idea what I
>> am doing.
>>
>> When I first installed survex it handily had a 'process' option in the
>> right-click menu for .svx files. (Oh yeah, and how do I get Windows to
>> show me the whole effing filename inlcuding extension?!)
>>
>> But 'opening' a file openned it in notepad which puts everything on
>> one line if the file came from unix which is 100% useless. So I
>> changed it to use wrodpad instead. All well and good. But now my
>> 'process' option seems to have evaporated. How do I get it back?
>>
>> I can change the default 'open with' action to use cavern but that's
>> not very helpful either. Perhaps I could change it to cavern and then
>> set the default back to wordpad, and that would leave cavern showing
>> in the 'open with' menu?
>>
>> Clues welcome.
>>
>> Wookey
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>>
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