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From: TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.ARPA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Finder & Binaries
Message-ID: <871231022021.175971@DOCKMASTER.ARPA>
Date: 31 Dec 87 02:20:00 GMT
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Thanks to Dave Lyons I have now been able to get the Finder to launch
old-fashioned binary files, and learned a lesson in the process.  Two
things are needed to do the job:  an appropriate Icon (which he sent me;
someone else mentioned there is a whole set of them in Apple2-L) AND the
most recent (well, anyway, a recent one) version of basic.launcher.  The
lesson learned was to make sure you have the most recent version of the
various parts of the system; having picked up one set from the
WordPerfect disks and another from my dealer and yet the original
version 1.1 when I got the machine I have probably completely lost track
of which version is where!  (I think that is called bad configuration
management!)

In the process I learned enough about the inner structure of icon
definitions to have the courage to change (with a disk editor) the text
string that defines the application to be loaded -- at least enough so
that it isn't bound to a specific volume name.

Out of this I do have a question -- does there exist any (ideally, any
GOOD) documentation on the Finder, and if so how does one go about
getting it?  Does it now come with new machines?

TMPLee@Dockmaster