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From: jms@antares.UUCP (Joe Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Has anyone gotten
Summary: Spectacular GURU + Internal clock not functioning!
Keywords: IconType missing do_DrawerData
Message-ID: <381@antares.UUCP>
Date: 5 Feb 89 10:05:10 GMT
References: <2194@van-bc.UUCP>
Reply-To: jms@antares.UUCP (Joe Smith)
Organization: Tymnet QSATS, San Jose CA
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In article <2194@van-bc.UUCP> lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes:
>>>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
>Here's the corrected code:
	[IconType.c deleted]

Well I just tried IconType, and it produced the most spectacular
crash I've ever seen.  Just after compiling it, this is what I did:

	1>CD SYS2:
	1>copy system/IconEd.info TEST.info
	1>makedir TEST
	1>IconType TEST drawer
	1>loadwb

The TEST icon showed up in the SYS2: window.  I single-clicked on it and
chose INFO from the menu and verified that the icon was of type Drawer.
Then I double-clicked the icon.  Boy, you should have seen the fireworks!

Both disk drives started grumbling at about 7 Hz.  The SEND and RECV lights
on the modem flickered between full and half brightness in sync with the
disks.  The screen made pretty black, white, and green patterns that looked
like "random" bits from executable code.  Then it froze, with the screen
white and the light on DF0 on but the disk was not spinning.

Giving my Amiga the three-fingered salute, I tried to reboot from my usual
Workbench disk.  It died in the middle of the startup-sequence with:
	Internal clock not functioning
	Setclock failed returncode 20
Luckily, a 30-second power down fixed this problem.  Otherwise I would have
had to disassemble my A2000 to temporarily disconnect the battery to reset
the clock.

It looks like I will have to use SIT from Fish Disk #137 instead of IconType.
The Set-Icon-Type program by Stephen Vermeulen knows that you can't change
a Tool icon to a Drawer icon by simply rewriting one byte.  SIT reads an
existing Drawer/Disk/Trashcan icon to get the proper info for setting up
the do_DrawerInfo field.

So, Larry, did you actually test your program?

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> |   //   Larry Phillips                                                |
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