Re: Aliases in GS/OS

[Jeff Blakeney <CUTjblakeney@sentex.net>]

On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 09:43:39 +1300, dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David
Empson) wrote:

>The Icons files are used in order to associate files with applications,
>so you will need them if you want to be able to double-click documents
>and have the corresponding application launch.  (I have a vague
>recollection that System 6 introduced a new mechanism for this, but I'm
>starting to get rusty.)

Somewhere around the introduction of System 6, Apple added the the
resource version of an icon (this might be called an rBundle, my
memory is getting rusty too :-).  These are stored in the resource
fork of an application and when you first run that application from
the Finder, Finder will pull that information out and add it to its
Desktop file (a hidden file in the Icons folder).

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