David,
I think she means that when it asks what she wants to use to open .brf
files, she clicks browse and then selects the DBT program file that way.
Thus, that would mean she'd go to its software folder since it is
technically not recognized as a program within Windows. Unfortunately, that
won't work in this situation. Rather than clicking on individual files on
the computer, DBT has to be opened first, and then files have to be selected
through its file menu. Makes it a bit tedious, especially if you're staring
at a file but are then made to browse for it within DBT.
-Alyssa
-----Original Message-----
From: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of David Holladay
Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2012 3:02 PM
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [duxuser] Re: DBT11.1 with .BRF files
Lisett:
I am confused as to why you would launch DBT this way. I usually use the
Start Menu, or click on an icon on the desktop.
Opening the entire software folder is such a hard way to do things. There
are actually 2 dbtw.exe files (one of them is a program manifest that
reforms the behavior of Microsoft Windows to be more civilized when DBT is
running). While I want to figure out what is going on here, I would
encourage discussion to be off line. I do not want to give the impression
that this is a method of launching DBT that is useful or recommended.
I also want to point out that this problem is a very separate issue from
clicking on a data file, and expecting DBT to launch (that is, linking
certain data file extensions with the DBT application),
which is the problem Alyssa wrote about.
-- David Holladay
Duxbury Systems
At 03:47 PM 2/2/2012, you wrote:
>Hi
>I too have had this problem for months using Windows Vista and all
>versions of DBT 11.
>I select the dbtw.exe file from the Duxbury 11 folder, and when I choose
>"open" it still asks me what programme I want to use. Before I press enter
>on "open" dbt.exe is showing as the selected file name. The "All file
>types" option is selected.
>Maybe I'm missing a step?
>It used to work perfectly in 10.7 on the same machine.
>I wonder if anybody has any ideas
>
>Lisette
> ----- Original Message -----
>From: Alyssa
>Hi,
>I am having trouble associating .brf files with DBT11.1. I've gone into
>the set file types dialogue box. I've right-clicked individual files to
>try to get them to open with DBT, but when I attempt to select it as the
>default program, my computer refuses to recognize that it even exists and
>tries to default to something else. Is there something I can do to fix
this?
>Thanks.
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