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From: dickie@schaefer.math.wisc.edu (Garth Dickie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: system 7 miscellany
Message-ID: <1991May20.031954.9982@schaefer.math.wisc.edu>
Date: 20 May 91 03:19:54 GMT
Organization: Univ. of Wisconsin Dept. of Mathematics
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I wrote some rubbish about using the hex editor in ResEdit 2.1 to move data
from between SICN and ics# resources, so that B&W macs can edit the small
Finder icons.  Of course, there is a much cleaner way to do this:

ResEdit 2.1 uses 'RMAP' resources to map different resource types to the same
editor.  This trick is an abuse of the 'RMAP' resource:  Create one in your
ResEdit Preferences file, and give it the name "ics#", so that it will use this
mapping whenever it wants to edit an 'ics#', and fill in the template with
"SICN", so that it uses the 'SICN' editor.  Very simple!
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Garth Dickie -- Math Graduate Student? -- dickie@math.wisc.edu