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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
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Subject: Re: ray tracing pics. (actually Workbench ICONS discussion)
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Date: Sat, 11-Oct-86 20:16:01 EDT
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>Matt,  If all the icons were in one file, wouldn't that adversely affect 
>being able to move files around from CLI.  Like, here is MicroGnuEmacs and
>it's info file MicroGnuEmacs.info.  Well if I am at the 
>
>1> 
>
>prompt (or the %, or the new $ for Manx users) and I build a subdirectory
>with makedir emacs.  And I want to put MicroGnuEmacs there, I can now say:
>
>% mv M* emacs
>
>and all the programs that begin with M go there, but if the icons are locked
>in a chunk I have to get out my icon editor or I have to loadwb.  It just
>seems to me that your plan is from a man who likes Unix, and would like to
>see all that Intuition stuff put out of the way where you don't have to fool
>with it (and it would be faster for those icon users).  I like it the way it
>is now, however I would like to know how Amicus disk #9 (or so) comes up so
>fast (swish-BAM).
>
>Oh, have you thought about incorporating your term program with vt100?
>Giving vt100, and kermit facilities on a requestor driven term prog that
>has asyncronious disk writes so that it never slows or pauses.  I'd like
>to hear.
>

	Yes, you would to use WorkBench to do the moving, though if you
are moving EVERYTHING in some directory to somewhere else you could simply
copy the .ICONS (or whatever it will be called) file with it.

	In fact, you could copy just a few of the pictures or whatever and the
entire .ICONS file over and say, have WorkBench clean it up (remove entries 
which don't exist).

	The advantage to having all the ICONS in one file is that the
Workbench would become usable.

						-Matt