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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Desktop Application Icons
Message-ID: <11608@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 15 Nov 89 23:04:50 GMT
References: <2503.cortland.info-apple@pro-houston> <5159@internal.Apple.COM> <3412@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <3412@hydra.gatech.EDU> ccastbs@prism.gatech.EDU (Shannon Bell) writes:
>Recently, I bought Copy II+ 8.something, and I noticed that under GS/OS,
>the icon for Util.System is placed in the lower left corner of the 
>desktop, like a Macintosh does. How does the finder decide that it should
>do this, and is there an easy way to have it do this with other applications?

Just drag your icon onto the desktop and close the volume that the
file is contained within; the Finder normally saves this information
in a file in the volume root directory.  (Actually, whether it does
or not is user-configurable.)