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- From: sledford@iglou.iglou.com (Steve L. Edford)
- Subject: Re: Let's Rummage!
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- References: <tony.0406@zorro.southern.co.nz>
- Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 11:49:13 GMT
-
- tony@zorro.southern.co.nz (Tony McKee) writes:
-
- >Hi Folks. I've been rummaging around on our A3000's WB 3.1 set-up disks;
- >no particular reason - I just do things like that once in a blue moon.
- >(Betcha you do the same now and then - eh? ;-) ) In so doing, an old
- >curiosity has been reawakened:
-
- Ahh, so I'm not the only one. :) If you look in the :C directory of
- Install3.1:, you'll find a neat little CLI program called "IconPos" which
- apparently is used by the 3.1 Installer script to position icons. You can
- use this in scripts to align/organize any of your icons with this.
- To find out the options, just type "IconPos ?" :-)
-
- >On the WB 3.1 install disk there is a program called 'HDSetup'. Now,
- >'HDToolbox' also resides on that disk in the 'HDTools' dir. So, what's
- >the difference between these programs. As far as I can tell from reading
-
- I believe the difference is that HDSetup uses the default of splitting
- the hard drive into 2 equal sized partitions, one for SYS:, the other
- for Work:. My guess is this is for someone who wouldn't feel comfortable
- with (or not know how to) using HDToolBox directly. That way, they can
- easily get their HD up and running. But then, this is my guess, I could
- be wrong.....nahhh! ;^)
-
- >BTW, I can find no reference to 'HDSetup' in the WB 3.1 manuals, nor the
-
- Yep, I couldn't find it either. Not even a ReadMe file on Install3.1.
-
- >the mirror-mount grommets on a sparkling, re-conditioned, '57 Chevy...
- >keeps you awake at night... know the feeling? ;-)
-
- Oh yeah, the good ol' days. I wish I could see as many of these as I used
- to back when. :-)
-
-
- >Cheers, Tony McKee
-
-
- --
-
- Steve Edford
- sledford@iglou.com
-