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From: louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos)
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Subject: Re: Need help with .info files
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Date: Tue, 20-Jan-87 08:41:24 EST
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In article <2269@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> spencer@eris.BERKELEY.EDU () writes:
>Well, perhaps I am behind the times, but I don't know where to go in the 
>manuals to find information on the .info file structure.  I don't know
>what is wrong with me, I just don't ever remember coming across it.  I 
>am trying to read the icon files and display their graphic on my own screen.
>If there is anyone who does know, please let me know.  If there is an interest
>in how they work I will post responses.

You're best be is to use the routines in the icon.library library.  You probably
want to use GetDiskObject(), which will return a pointer to a data structure
which is documented in the RKM and include files.   As far as I can tell, the
format of the data that lives on disk *in* the .info files is undocumented.
You should use the icon.library stuff, so that when we convince C-A to put
all the icons in one file (per directory?) you're program will still work.

For a more detailed treatement of how to use these .info things, look for my
article in Volume 2, Number 2 of {\it Amazing Computing} magazine, entitled
"Working with the Workbench".  


Louis A. Mamakos  WA3YMH    Internet: louie@TRANTOR.UMD.EDU
University of Maryland, Computer Science Center - Systems Programming