Need a file viewer for viewing all files in windows 3.1 file manager. I had found one that worked kinda like an add-in it brought the word fileview on top in the toolbar it displayed the context of any file, must have been in windows directory then I had to reinstall windows and lost it. It worked like hitting the F9 key in the dos based dosshell. Thanks for any help. Fiebiger

Maybe this one (Hex File View)? File viewers for Win31 are... numerous, to say the least Why don't they make computers that will do what we think we want them to do?

Yes that would work wasn't thinking about hex viewer was just loking under file viewers Thanks! Fiebiger

There are many, many more - you can keep scouting around for the specific one - you'll either find it or one as good or better. Some are more versatile than others and will let you view files in their native format. Drag and View comes to mind. Why don't they make computers that will do what we think we want them to do?

You're thinking, i think, of FMView, when you mention it adding itself to the 'file' menu , and the 'F9' thing... It's here.. http://www.wincorner.com/home/fmview.html It's shareware, and the unregistered version won't play videos or show more than a couple dozen different graphic formats. Worth the 15 bucks, i think.. Yeah, sure there's lots of viewers for win31..i've tried over 20 of 'em.. this, i think , is the fastest, easiest, and most comprehensive.... it reads.. Ami Pro Document Amiga IFF ARJ Archive Assembler Source AVI Basic Form Basic Source Binary Hex Dump C Source CAB archive CALS Bitmap CIS Mail Configuration File Corel Draw dBase Data Base DCX Bitmap Document Dynamic Link Library Encapsulated Postscript Fax Fortran Source FoxPro Data Base GEM Bitmap Halo CUT Bitmap HTML Document ICO InfoSelect InfoSelect 3 IOCA Bitmap Java Source JPEG Bitmap LaserView Bitmap Linker Definition Lotus 123 WKS, WK1-WK4 LZH Archive MacPaint Bitmap Make File Microsoft Excel 3, 4, 5, 95, 97, 2000, XP Microsoft Paint Bitmap Microsoft Word 1, 2, 6, 95, 97, 2000, XP Microsoft Works DOS, 2, 3 MIDI MPEG Movie MSDOS Command Batch MSDOS Executable New Executable NT Executable OLE 2 Compound Document Paradox Data Base Pascal Source PCX Bitmap Photo CD Bitmap Photoshop Bitmap PICT Bitmap Pixmap Bitmap Portable Anymap Portable Bitmap Portable Graymap Portable Network Portable Pixmap QuickTime Movie Resource Source Rich Format SGI Bitmap Sidekick Data Base Sun Bitmap TARGA Bitmap TIFF Bitmap True Type Font Wave Windows Bitmap Windows Help File Windows Meta File Word Perfect Word Perfect Metafile WordStar 4, 7 Write X Bitmap ZIP Archive That's a lot of formats..it also saves in most formats,cuts , copies, pastes, edits system files , etc... It lives in File manager as a right-click viewer..but you can get Calmira to call it up as an external viewer too with an easy tweak.. That's my 2 bits...