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From: ke2y@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: How to add startup icon to one that doesn't?
Message-ID: <4755.26a6cc88@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
Date: 20 Jul 90 13:19:03 GMT
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In article <43171@apple.Apple.COM>, lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein) writes:
> In article <1990Jul20.001136.6842@midway.uchicago.edu> dwal@midway.uchicago.edu (David Walton) writes:
>>
>>If an INIT doesn't show an icon at startup, it's not really possible
>>to hack it up so it does.  This sort of thing isn't managed by the
>>system, but by a procedure which Apple distributes (to anybody who
>>asks for it) for anybody who wants to include in in his her INIT.  For
> 
> That's not always true.  The system executes all INIT resources it finds in
> a file, so one can simply add a new INIT resource that displays the icon.  

  In fact, I seem to recall a small hack that does just that:  pulls the
INIT's icon from the desktop and adds the ShowINIT code with this icon.

  I think I saw it at either sumex-aim.stanford.edu or rascal.ics.utexas.edu,
but I'm afraid I can't remember which...

  Good luck!

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