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From: egul@hp-lsd.COS.HP.COM (Ed Gulczynski - FIS)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.icon
Subject: Re: What are ICONS?
Message-ID: <10110001@hp-lsd.COS.HP.COM>
Date: 12 Nov 90 21:28:19 GMT
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Organization: HP Logic Systems Division - ColoSpgs, CO
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an icon is a bitmap, created by either you or by the application shell, that
pictorally represents an application, process, login, ...... whatever, 
to which you can jump from the current window.  This is usually done via
a mouse.  "Clicking" the   icon will usually start a script which otherwise you would
have to run or key in manually.  

A picture (icon) is worth a thousand words, get it?