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From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David A. Lyons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: System folder auxtype
Message-ID: <48549@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 28 Jan 91 01:06:57 GMT
References: <414@generic.UUCP>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <414@generic.UUCP> taob@pnet91.cts.com (Brian Tao) writes:
>
>    A question was recently raised on a local user group BBS.  Why does the
>GS/OS System folder have an auxiliary type $0002 instead of just $0000 like
>normal folders.  Don't say "so it gets the little Apple design on the icon"
>because you can edit the icon file to anything you want.  I've changed the
>auxtype to $0000 without any harmful side-effects.  Does A2 DTS have something
>planned for this special auxtype?

I believe the System folder itself, on disk, has an auxiliary type of zero.
The Finder *pretends* internally that the System folder on your boot disk
has auxiliary type $0002 for Icon matching purposes.

This would explain why changing the auxiliary type had no effect for you;
it was already 0, and the Finder ignores the real auxiliary type.

(Folder auxiliary types are generally insignificant and should not be
counted on.  Not all file systems have a place to store them!)
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