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What's included:
All_The_Pointers Iff Picture of all 160 Pointers
Credit_where_It's_Due Listing of who made the pointers
Icons.lha Archive (Not Compressed) of Icons of pointers
Pointers.lha Archive (Ditto) of Pointers
Pointer_Index Listing of each row of All_The_Pointers
Ok, here's the scoop. I had several pointers that I wanted to use, but
they were all in WB 1.3's system-configuration format. Well, I was running
under 2.0 now and couldn't get any program to change them, and SetPrefs &
Prefs would change the screen colors, etc, but not the pointers. So
finally, I dug out the specs and made a quicky ARexx program to convert all
my pointers into the new PREF's format. It took some work (I'm not a
programmer, yet(?)), but here's the result.
Now I'll bet your asking, "Why the heck are there 2 more archives in this
thing." Well, good question. These archives are not compress, simply
stored (-lh0-). After compressing, I didn't like the size of the archive
(95,144 bytes), but I remembered a tip from the LHA doc file. Store
everything into one big file, and compress that. Well, the result is now
only 56 K for the pointers & Icons. Much better.
There are two ways for you to pick out a pointer you like. First, for the
Workbench orientated, unpack both Pointers.lha, and Icons.lha. They will
unarc into a directory called Pointers. Then just open the drawer and pick
which pointer you like. Each icon is a 16 color icon and the palette for
viewing them is included, so just double-click on the palette, then the
icon, and there's your new pointer.
For those who don't like all those icons, just look at the picture
"All_The_Pointers". That's all of them. Just figure out which row it's on
and look in the file "Pointer_Index". Just type "Pointer <file> Use" from
Cli to load it up and there you go.
Finally, the file "Credit_Where_It's_Due" tells who made the pointers, if I
was at all able to find out.
enjoy
Bryan Williams