Associating a file type with TextEdit

Hi all!
Our program creates some dictionary files with a unique file extension, and I wondered if it is possible to associate these with TextEdit.app programmatically?
I tried updating the Info.plist (manually) in TextEdit.app to incorporate our file type, re-started, but it still says 'there is no default application specified' to open the document. Can anybody help me?
Kind regards

Thanks for your response. I looked into that one, the problem with it is that it is local to each user and it's a bit tricky, if impossible, to amend it correctly with defaults.
The link I posted above works a treat, and the relevant block of code can be added to TextEdit's plist file via a shell script with cat
Message was edited by: DeadGoodDave

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