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From: ebert@arisia.Xerox.COM (Robert Ebert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: HELP! HELP! HELP! My inis turned into documents!! HELP!!
Summary: Let the init disabler do the work
Keywords: INIT CDEV, ICONs for INITs, Generic ICONs
Message-ID: <6653@arisia.Xerox.COM>
Date: 24 Feb 90 02:13:13 GMT
References: <7696@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> <wZtAX7u00WB58BwKRt@andrew.cmu.edu> <1928@wrgate.WR.TEK.COM>
Reply-To: bebert.osbunorth@xerox.com (Bob Ebert)
Organization: Xerox Sunnyvale System Software Unit
Lines: 18

In article <1928@wrgate.WR.TEK.COM> herbw@midas.WR.TEK.COM (Herb Weiner) writes:
>INIT CDEV and related utilities disable INITs (and cdevs and rdevs) by
>changing their type.  This causes the INITs to loose their ICONs and
>display as generic documents.
>
>I would like to suggest that all INIT (cdev/rdev) authors include an
>extra ICON in their INIT.  This extra ICON would be the same as the
>normal ICON with an X through it.

Of course, the correct way to do it would be for the init handler authors
(or other interested bodies) to write the code that adds the new icons
to the desktop for the new file types, and make it part of the init
handling hack.  That way writers of other hacks wouldn't be burdened with
having to create their own icons for such a specialized case.

It is a neat idea, though.

			--Bob