Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!tellab5!wiseman From: wiseman@tellab5.tellabs.com (Jeff Wiseman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: HELP! HELP! HELP! My inis turned into documents!! HELP!! Keywords: INIT CDEV, ICONs for INITs, Generic ICONs Message-ID: <2165@tellab5.tellabs.com> Date: 27 Feb 90 18:44:15 GMT References: <7696@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> <1928@wrgate.WR.TEK.COM> <6653@arisia.Xerox.COM> Reply-To: wiseman@tellab5.UUCP (Jeff Wiseman) Organization: Tellabs, Inc. Lisle IL Lines: 21 In article <6653@arisia.Xerox.COM> bebert.osbunorth@xerox.com (Bob Ebert) writes: >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. >> [stuff deleted] > >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 Oooohh neat! And maybe it could somehow be worked into the startup display in the same way! Since I normally use only about 4 or 5 of the 20 inits in my system folder, I could get'em ALL to show up with Iconwrap or something. (Course then, someone might have to write an Icon-page-wrap type init :-) -- Jeff Wiseman: ....uunet!tellab5!wiseman OR wiseman@TELLABS.COM