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From: Jim.Spencer@p510.f22.n282.z1.fidonet.org (Jim Spencer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: System 7.0 color disk drive icons?
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Date: 18 May 91 14:06:47 GMT
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Jonathan Pace writes in a message to All

JP>  You _can_ paste a 256 color icon into the get info box of a 
JP> drive in system 7. The way I did it was to open the icon I wanted 
JP> in ResEdit, use the selector to select the whole picture, copy, 
JP> and then pasted it into the get info box. My drives look really 
JP> nice now.

As far as I can tell, what you can paste into the get info boxes is picts only, not icons interestingly enough.  By doing it the way you did, you actually copied a pict to the clipboard.  The point is that this seems to be the only way to do this.
 
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