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From: jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: ICON.DLL
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Date: 5 Jul 90 14:50:54 GMT
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In article <118500035@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> mms00786@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
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>Ooops, I wrote too soon.
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>If you rename icon.dll to icon.exe, the procedure seems to work. So, try this:

Not necessary.  Just click File -> Properties -> Change Icon and put
the name ICON.DLL in the "File Name" field in the Select Icon window.
If you then click the "Next Icon" button you'll start to browse through
the new icons.  Works like a champ.

(BTW: if you hit ENTER after putting ICON.DLL in the window, just re-click
on Change Icon.  ICON.DLL will continue to be the source of icons.)

Can someone identify the author/owner of the ICON.DLL file?  It's being
passed around with absolutely no credits.  It certainly comes under the
heading of "small but very nice" addons to the Windows environment that
should have been in the original product.  Also, I would like to make it
available to our internal users -- but I'm reluctant to do so without
knowing for sure that it's not pirated.

Also, how about some source so that we can build up local icon libraries
without having a barnyard full of icon files?

BTW: just what *is* the icon which appears four items after the boxed
asterisk?  It looks like an elongated, blue Band-Aid...

Joe Morris