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From: b645zaw@utarlg.uta.edu (Stephen Tice)
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Subject: Re: Thing ICON
Keywords: wanted - graphical representation for generic objects
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Date: 21 Jun 91 01:32:08 GMT
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George.Bray@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU (George Bray) writes:
>One of the representations I need is for a THING, a generic object. At best,
>all I can think of is a hand coming out of a small wooden box, from the
>Addams Family TV series.  This is hardly intuitive!

Well, if a single icon won't get it  ....
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