Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!uflorida!gatech!prism!hamlet!rhoward From: rhoward@msd.gatech.edu (Robert L. Howard) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Dos Icon to Prettier Icon (was "MicroEmacs ...") Message-ID: Date: 23 Mar 91 16:20:28 GMT References: <1991Mar22.183539.26218@sj.ate.slb.com> <6755@rex.cs.tulane.edu> <1978@gemini.cs.nps.navy.mil> Sender: news@prism.gatech.EDU Organization: Georgia Tech Research Institute Lines: 30 monahan@gemini.cs.nps.navy.mil (James Monahan) writes: >Normal DOS programs do not have an embedded icon as do Win apps. >You can change the icon in the Program Manager; this is usually answer #1. : >As stated before, normal DOS programs do not have an icon inside but Windows >uses 1 of 2 files (depending on your Win mode: WINOA286.MOD or WINOA386.MOD) >to show the ugly grey DOS icon. The 2 afore mentioned shareware programs can >find this icon and swap in a new one..... Obviously this is a limitation in Windows itself with only some broad hacks available to change that generic icon. So the real solution is a change in Windows. How about this? Why not have an "Icon" entry in the PIF for a DOS (or any) program where you decide to run it with a PIF. Is there any way we can suggest this to Microsoft? Is anyone out there listening? I'd settle for it as a 3.1 feature... Robert -- | Robert L. Howard | Georgia Tech Research Institute | | rhoward@msd.gatech.edu | MATD Laboratory | | (404) 528-7165 | Atlanta, Georgia 30332 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | "Reality is showing us that perhaps we should do with nuclear | | power the same thing Keloggs is advocating for Corn Flakes - | | Discover it again for the first time." -- John De Armond |