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From: lamont@convex.com (Bradley Lamont)
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Subject: Re: What does "Use Physical Icon" mean?
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Date: 11 Jun 91 18:05:02 GMT
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ISW@cup.portal.com (Isaac S Wingfield) writes:

>In the LAYO resource of the finder (Sys. 6.0.5), there is a button to
>"use physical icon". What is this and how does it work?

>Is it a way to assign icons to individual disks or files?

This changes the floppy (maybe the hard disk also) icons in the finder
so that instead of the standard disk icon, they use the computer icon
with an arrow pointing to the drive that the disk belongs to.  These are
the same icons that are shown when you try to format a floppy disk.

It is useful if you have a couple of floppys and want to know which disk
is in which drive.

Hope this helps,
Brad Lamont