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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Has anyone gotten "IconType" to work?
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Date: 29 Jan 89 06:55:45 GMT
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In article <35254@bbn.COM| cosell@BBN.COM (Bernie Cosell) writes:
|The subject mostly says it all: I've tried using IconType (FTP'ed out of the
|archives from some Fish disk, if I recall) and had no success.
...
|When I try:icontype myicon.info project
|it acts like it just completed OK (no diagnostics or aLY_nything) but:
|  a) the type of the icon DIDNT really get changed, and
|  b) my CLI won't go away (endcli doesn't).
|Has anyone had any luck with IconType?  Does anyone have some OTHER utility
|(presumably better-known to work) that will do a similar job?  Thanks

I did ftp IconType from the FF listing (I don't recall from where, Bob Page
told me), and it works like a champ.  I use the same syntax you mention.

Just for checking, the version of IconType I have is 5688 bytes long.

-- Marco Papa 'Doc'
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