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|    Dean Earley to Dean Earley    |
|    Re: Finding a path to a program    |
|    21 Dec 06 10:18:01    |
      From: dean.earley@icode.co.uk              Dean Earley wrote:       > Ivan Bernage wrote:       >> In a VB6-program I would like to find the path to the program       >> associated to a given extension. E.g. given the extension *.doc I       >> would like to find the path to winword.exe (on a single computer, not       >> in a network).       >> The necessary information can be found in the registry. But how to       >> extract it easily? Is there some utility available or do I have to       >> program the whole process?       >       > Do you actually need the executable path or just want to open the       > executable?              Sorry, open the Document, not Executable.              --       Dean Earley (dean.earley@icode.co.uk)       i-Catcher Development Team              iCode Systems              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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