Re: Stupid Questions 101

[dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

In article <30ef18d0.310436@news.demon.co.uk>,
Soenke Behrens <sbehrens@contech.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> minuet@indy.net (Cold Fusion) wrote:
> 
> >Dumb question #1: Is it possible to change the icons on your desktop, 
> >like the ones for the harddrive partitions? I don't really like the 
> >default ones too much.
> 
> Yes. Check out ICE from EGO Systems, it's one of the better (if not
> the best) icon editors around.

Further information on that: the "standard" icons provided by Finder
are all built into its resource fork.

You could patch these icons directly, but a tidier method (which will
"stick" if you reinstall the system software at a later point) is to
create an icon file containing replacements for the appropriate icons.

A special "file type" value is used to indicate to Finder that the
icon is a replacement for one of its standard ones.  ICE should offer
all of the special internal Finder icons via this method (it should
have a pop-up menu or similar).  Other icon editors certainly do.

You can even use this technique to set up different icons for each
hard drive partition - set up an icon that matches the name of the
volume, and has a file type of "hard drive partition".

If you want custom icons for some partitions as well as a generic
replacement icon, make sure you get the icons in the right order.
The more specific icon for the partition must go first (either earlier
in the same icon file, in an earlier icon file in the same directory,
or on an earlier volume).

> Try GSCII+ NDA, or sscii. They both handle BinSCII as well as uuencode
> (last I looked, anyway).

Yes.  They also handle AAF (Apple Archive Format - used for posts on
comp.sources.apple2; probably decoding only) and BinHex 4.0
(definitely extraction, not sure about creation).
-- 
David Empson
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