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From: bartonr@jove.cs.pdx.edu (Robert Barton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: .info
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Date: 8 Dec 89 07:37:27 GMT
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Reply-To: bartonr@jove.cs.pdx.edu (Robert Barton)
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Portland State University; Portland OR
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 doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt) writes:
> That's exactly right. The file ".info" is a window snapshot, created by
> selecting the SNAPSHOT menu entry from Workbench. There will be one
> in every directory in which a snapshot has been taken. It contains the
> positions for all windows and icons that were snapshotted.

  Not quite.  Position information for each icon's image is kept in that icon.
That's why when you select a bunch of icons and do a Snapshot you get all
that disk activity.  Workbench has to find and update all those info files.
The special .info file starts with F34C0012, then a date stamp (3 longwords),
and then the names of the icons in the drawer, each terminated with a linefeed.