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4. Click “Advanced” to bring up the dialog below.<br>
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5. Choose “New…” and enter text to describe the “Action:” (ege.g. “Run TUFLOW (Single Precision)”) – this text appears on the pop-up menu when you click the right mouse button on a .tcf file in Explorer. Enter or use “Browse…” to specify the path to TUFLOW.exe; note the need for quotes if the path has any spaces. After “TUFLOW.exe”, add a space then “%1” including the quotes, as shown below. Choose “OK”. The “Application used to perform action:” field should be something like: "C:\Program Files\Tuflow\Releases\2008\iSP\TUFLOW.exe" "%1"<br>
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6. The action should now appear in the list under “Actions:”. It is not recommended that a “Run TUFLOW” action be set as the default action as it is easy to accidentally start a simulation, which instantly overwrites any existing result files. You may wish to set up other associations at this point, for example, to access older builds or to use the Double Precision build.<br>