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Running an external application from a read-only file
Original Tip Date:
Sep 27, 2005
Running an external application from a read-only file
With thanks to
Rudi Wells
for sharing this tip:
To run an external application from MicroStation, simply keyin the name of the application preceeded by a
%
.
For example - to kick off NotePad, the keyin is:
%notepad
But...if the file is read-only, you'll need to add a space behind the
%
.
Like this -
% notepad
.
This is true for all read-only files so applies to Bentley View and Bentley Redline as well.
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Created by
JStierly
When:
Thu, Jun 19 2008 8:14 AM
Last revision by
Inga Morozoff
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Wed, Jun 9 2010 9:09 AM
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