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From: freak@cbnewsc.att.com (c.e.malloy..iii)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Icon Management
Message-ID: <1991Jan31.143436.27782@cbnewsc.att.com>
Date: 31 Jan 91 14:34:36 GMT
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In article <19579@shlump.nac.dec.com> wales@lrcsnl.enet.dec.com (David Wales) writes:
> I have managed to collect over 2200 icons now and it poses a bit of a
> problem. All of the .ICO files are quite small and hence waste a fair
> bit of disk space. That is not my major problem though. Because of the
> small size it increases my backup times by a lot because the tape has
> to stop/start quite a bit instead of streaming. What used to take 5
> minutes now takes just over 2 hours just with the addition of 1.5MB or
> so of icons!
>
> I have seen .EXE files that contain a lot of icons too so what I am
> after is some sort of program that can assemble all of my .ICO files
> into a single or at least a few .EXE files.
>
>	Anybody got any ideas??

Check out hDCs Icon Manager. It will let you create groups with multiple
icons in each file. I have created files with as many as 75 icons in each.
I don't know the maximum number that can be placed in each file, but 75
different icons in a file takes a while to "Next Icon" through. The program
costs under $40(US).

2200 Icons? Why?

Clancy Malloy
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