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- From: Alan Peter Suggitt <sug@apsayton.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
- Subject: Re: .info files. what are they?
- Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 20:36:26 GMT
- Organization: Canny Yatton
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- Adam Atkinson (ghira@mistral.co.uk) wrote:
- > On 31-Mar-96 00:13:16, Jonas Thorell said:
- > >>I keep finding files called only ".info" in oldish archives. What are/were
- > >>they for?
- >
- > >Workbench uses these files to determine where the window for that particular
- > >drawer's going to be opened.
- >
- > Does it STILL use them? Most of my drawers don't contain a ".info". I
- > imaged the window position would be stored in drawer.info rather than
- > drawer/.info
- >
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- I think it was only used by prior to 2.0, the 2.04 UpdateWB script
- specifically deleted the .info files from the sys: directories
-
- ------------------------------>&----------------------------------------
- ; Delete all ".info" files
- ;
- list target:#? all files pat=.info lformat "delete *"%p%n*" quiet" >t:dinfo
- execute t:dinfo
- delete ram:delexist quiet
- ;
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- Sug
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- Alan Peter Suggitt <sug@apsayton.demon.co.uk>
- Warped A4000 -- "Multimedia by design"
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