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From: jms@antares.UUCP (Joe Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: RAM disk
Message-ID: <374@antares.UUCP>
Date: 30 Jan 89 05:35:25 GMT
Reply-To: jms@antares.UUCP (Joe Smith)
Organization: Tymnet QSATS, San Jose CA
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In reference to Neil Weinstock who mentioned creating your own icon for the
RAM disk:  I found a disk.info file on one of the Fish Disks that is an image
of a male sheep; a ram's head.  It is an alternate image icon; the head faces
the other direction when it is selected.  My startup-sequence has the command
"copy SYS:RAMicon RAM:disk.info"

I found this particular icon the hard way, by looking all all the drawers on
the Fish disks for disks.info, copying it to the root directory of a disk,
popping the disk out and put it back in and wait for workbench to show it.
Very slow.  Eventually I got SIT (Set Icon Type) from Fish disk #137 and
converted a bunch of disk icons into drawer icons so they are visible.  So I
have this icon but don't know which disk it came from.

In article <2779@ukecc.engr.uky.edu>  (Kenneth Herron) writes:
>As near as I could tell, the exact behavior is:  When LoadWB starts up,
>if RAM: has no disk.info, then SYS:disk.info is copied to RAM:disk.info.
>So whatever icon your boot disk has, your ram: disk will have the same one.

All my bootable disks have custom disk icons.  In particular, my workbench
SYS:disk.info is a wooden table with tools on it.  Since I get a generic
disk for RAM: if I don't use my RAMicon, this is proof that SYS:disk.info
does not get copied.  Workbench has the generic disk icon embedded in it.
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