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From: spencer@oberon.UUCP (Randy Spencer)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga Purchase && questions
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Date: Sun, 23-Feb-86 19:39:32 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb 23 19:39:32 1986
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> I copied AmigaBASIC (MS species) to the Workbench disk. I turned on the CLI
> option in Preferences. Now, whenever I open my Workbench icon, all the
> other icons (AmigaBASIC, CLI, Trash, etc.) are all piled on top of each
> other, and the drawers are halfway out the window. I rearrange them, save
> the INFO option on the disk icon, EVERYTHING- and it still makes a mess.
> What goes? And how do .info files work anyway? Are they just copies of the
> icon?
> # Daniel Rosenberg / Bell Labs / Murray Hill / I disclaim.

Each *.info file contains the info for the bitmap and contains the
position that it holds on the screen.  The file disk.info contains the
icon info for the disk that appears when the disk is inserted.  When
you move an icon you must save the info file for it again.  This is a
pain, if you use the clean-up option you must select each icon and
then save the info file.  If you want to save the position that the
window opens, that is saved by selecting the disk icon and save the
info for that (select get info and then click in the save box).  There
is another file called simply ".info" I forget where that fits into
this scheme at this moment and I am too busy watching the Monkees on
MTV to check.  Perhaps there is someone else who will fill this in.
One other thing:  When you insert a disk the icon will appear on the 
screen.  It is placed in a freespace on the screen, however, sometimes
a disks name goes off the edge of the screen is one is tempted to move
it so that the name can be read.  If you do this and then save the
info file (as above) the ability of workbench to place the icon in
a free space is gone, and in the future it will be displayed exactly 
where it was saved.  With the Icon editor I got with 1.1 I have been
having enormous amounts of fun redefining icons.  I only wish that 
it was possible to redefine the icon that is generated for the trash
can when a disk is initialized.

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