Utilities

On the Admin→Preferences... dialog, you can use the Utilities tab to set up some of the utilities for QWin to associate with.

Each field has the following meaning:

Visual Compare Utility Command Line:

Use this field to specify the command line that QWin should use when doing a Compare. The command must include two %s elements, each of which represents the path name for the files that are to be compared. In addition, the name of the utility file must end in either .exe or .bat. For example, if your visual compare utility was windiff.exe and it was located in C:\Program Files\msdev\bin\ which was in your PATH, you could define your compare utility command line as:

windiff.exe %s %s

If it wasn't in your PATH, you could define the full path to the utility with a compare utility command line like:

C:\Program Files\msdev\bin\windiff.exe %s %s

You may include command line options that you find useful.

There is a freeware visual compare utility available for download from the Quma website here. The author of Examdiff also has a shareware version of the utility available. See his website for more information.

If you use Examdiff, the command line should be:

examdiff.exe "%s" "%s"

Default Utility for viewing files:

Use this field to specify the full path of the utility of last resort that QWin will use to view a work file (using the File→View menu command or simply by double-clicking). If there is no associated utility for the selected file type, QWin will use the utility you identify here as the utility for viewing the work file. This defaults to Notepad. If you have a different preferred editor, enter its path here. If the path to this utility includes any spaces, make sure to add the utility's directory to your PATH, and use just the utility name here.

For viewing files (the File→View and File→View Revision... menu options), this utility is used only if there is no associated tool with the selected file’s extension. If there is a tool associated with the workfile’s extension, and that extension is not among the extensions defined in the edit box described below, that tool will be used instead of the one you define here.

This utility also defines the utility that QWin3 will use when the File→View as text menu option is chosen.

Use default utility for files with these extensions:

Use this field to define those file extensions for which you want to use the default viewing utility, regardless of the tool that Windows may have associated with files of that extension. By default, this includes .bat files. Generally, you would add additional file extensions that would cause problems if you let Windows launch the tool associated with files of that extension. Perl scripts are an example of this kind of file: if you have Perl installed correctly, double clicking on a perl script file would launch the Perl interpreter. Within QWin, it's more likely that when double clicking a Perl script, you'd rather launch an editor. The extensions you include here should be separated by a single comma character. A sample might look like: bat,pl,mak

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