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- From: fgd3@nifty.UUCP (Fabbian G. Dufoe, III)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Icons for assigns?
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- Message-ID: <fgd3.02vh@nifty.UUCP>
- References: <alien.013w@acheron.amigans.gen.nz>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 09:47:02 EST
- Organization: Fabbian G. Dufoe, III
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- In article <alien.013w@acheron.amigans.gen.nz> alien@acheron.amigans.gen.nz (Ross Smith) writes:
- >I'd like to be able to put a "disk.info" icon into a directory, set up an
- >assign to that directory, and have the pseudo-disk icon appear with the
- >real disk icons on my Workbench.
-
- That's a neat idea. You might want a special icon, though, so you would
- know it was a logical device. And if all the logical devices had icons
- you'd have one for PAR:, one for SER:, and one for PRT:. You wouldn't neet
- the PrintFiles program from the Sys:Utilities drawer. You could just "copy"
- a file to the "PRT:" device.
-
- >find the docs: directory (I don't mind if I have to do a reset before the
- >new icon appears). The idea is that an assign should look just like a real
-
- The assigns themselves won't survive a reset, so that won't do much to
- display the icons. But that shouldn't be necessary, any more than it is
- necessary to reset after inserting a new disk to see the new icon.
-
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