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From: dawg6844@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Dan Walkowski)
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Subject: Re: User definable objects in Finder 7.0
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palmer@nntp-server.caltech.edu (David Palmer) writes:

>Something which goes through the disk, finds all graphics files (GIFs,
>macpaint, macdraw, etc.) and replaces their icons with thumbnail
>versions of their contents.  You can then find graphics based on
>what they look like, instead of the file names.

The only problem is that they get so distorted by being scrunched and 
converted to the finder palette that they are al,ost unrecognizeable.
(I've done a few)

dan

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