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From: cchapman@msd.gatech.edu (Chuck H. Chapman)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Icon Management
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Date: 30 Jan 91 13:42:06 GMT
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In <19579@shlump.nac.dec.com> wales@lrcsnl.enet.dec.com (David Wales) writes:

|G'Day,
|
|	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??
|
|David.

You could ZIP or ARC them together into one big file.  I keep all my spare
icons in a ZIP file and unZIP them as needed.


Chuck, WB4UIH


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