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From: rmh@apple.com (Rick Holzgrafe)
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Subject: Re: What does "Use Physical Icon" mean?
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Date: 11 Jun 91 20:29:42 GMT
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In article <43152@cup.portal.com> 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?

Mounted volumes normally have their own icons. The generic floppy icon 
looks like a floppy, of course, and there are various ways to imbue 
individual floppies with custom icons. Hard disks have their icons in 
their driver software.

But sometimes it's nice to know where that floppy or hard drive is. The 
system contains icons that indicate which drive a floppy is in, or whether 
a hard disk is internal or external. These are the "physical icons". 
Setting that bit in the LAYO will cause the Finder to use those icons 
instead of the usual ones.

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 After an attempt at recovering, we got up the next day for the circuit race.
> This race was two 16.1 mile loops starting near the intersection of Minaret
> and 203, up to the Scenic Loop,...

Good any time for a serious taste of hypoxic delirium.  The brain turns
into bread dough, the lungs turn into garbage, and the legs feel just
fine 'cause they aren't really doing anything.

> ...out to 395.... There was a very long, fast descent.

Yeah!  With beautiful fast sweeping turns, down through the Jeffrey pines,
on and on!  Too bad you had to turn around and go back up it... ;^)

Sometime when you're touring, just turn left when you get to 395 and go
ride the June Lake Loop.  Yum!

David Casseres