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From: wnp@iiasa.ac.at (Wolf PAUL )
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: collecting icons
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Date: 17 Mar 91 15:23:38 GMT
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In article <1991Mar15.130928.28094@watserv1.waterloo.edu> tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu (Tom Haapanen) writes:
>>> I have icons in files with filetypes of .EXE, .ICO and .DLL
>>> Is there anyway to combine these into one single bigger file?
>
>Strictly speaking, not correct.  Icons can be extracted from .EXEs and
>.DLL using the ViewIcon/GetIcon programs recently posted to c.b.i.p,
>and combined to DLLs using the Windows SDK.

I set up a routine using the MKS Korn Shell and the GetIcon/PutIcon
packages mentioned to use one of the distributed .exe files full of
icons as a repository for my own collections. One script replaces
every icon in the original .exe file with a blank icon, and another
script sequentially puts the icons I want to add into the blanked-out
exe file.

Exe or DLL files like this can be found on cica with names like "iconlib.exe". 
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