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- Subject: Re: .info files. what are they?
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
- References: <255.6661T1334T1610@mistral.co.uk>
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- From: johnv@acix.DIALix.oz.au (John Verhoeven)
- Message-ID: <johnv.09lv@acix.DIALix.oz.au>
- Date: Sat, 30 Mar 96 18:20:57 +0800
- Organization: ACix - Private UUCP Node, Cloverdale, Western Australia.
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- In article dated 28 Mar 96 22:14:32 +0000, Adam Atkinson (ghira@mistral.co.uk) wrote:
- > I keep finding files called only ".info" in oldish archives. What are/were
- > they for?
-
- They were used to store a list of files with icons in a directory for use
- by Workbench when you opened the drawer. They went out with V2 and higher
- and you may delete them.
-
- --
- _--_|\ John Verhoeven (johnv@acix.DIALix.oz.au or johnv@DIALix.oz.au)
- / \ >>>> Writing programs in assembler is like digging post <<<<
- *_.--._/ >>>> holes with a teaspoon: it takes a long time, but <<<<
- v >>>> you have complete control over all the dirt. <<<<
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