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From: tdawson@weeg.uiowa.edu (Tim Dawson)
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Subject: Re: The World Icon
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Date: 4 Jun 91 15:42:23 GMT
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In article <4048@nosc.NOSC.MIL> beck@VAX309.NOSC.MIL writes:
> Hello!
> I would like to "find" the World Icon that automatically comes up
> to represent the directory /Net and use it for my directories
> that are actually NFS clients. More generally, how does one "attach"
> an icon to a directory? If you look in /Net, there's nothing there.
> 
> Thanks in Advance!
> 
> Reply to: beck@cpl.nosc.mil
>           Naval Health Research Center, San Diego, CA

In my experience, the easiest way to "find" an icon is to rip it off
using Icon's "grab" feature (I know Icon is buggy, just be careful).
Then set the image size to 48 x 48 and save the file as "world.tiff" or
something.  As far as "attaching" the icon, simply move the file to 
the folder you want to iconize and rename the file to ".dir.tiff"
(excluding the quotes, of course).  It's that easy.

Hope this helps.

Tim Dawson
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA