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- Iconmaker may be used for any purpose and is thus in the public domain.
-
- Iconmaker is most useful when it is readily available on the system
- disk.
-
- The best way to install the iconmaker into your system is to place the
- executable iconmaker onto your system disk in the C: directory and the
- rest of the required files
-
- project, project.info
- tool, tool.info
- drawer, drawer.info
-
-
- in this kit into a directory also on the system disk, for example
- sys:icon_templates. Then add the following line to your system startup
- file sys:s/startup-sequence:
-
- assign icons: sys:icon_templates
-
- Note that the file 'drawer' is not supplied since it is a directory file
- that must be created as for example,
-
- makedir sys:icon_templates/drawer
-
- The files TOOL and PROJECT have been provided in the kit although they
- are only dummy files that are necessary so you can use the workbench
- option INFO on the icon files (likewise, the sub-directory drawer is not
- used by iconmaker but permits one to manipulate the icon files from the
- workbench).
-
- Iconmaker can be invoked from workbench as well as cli, so you may want
- to create a project icon file in the root level of the system disk that
- has as its default tool c:iconmaker. When you want to run iconmaker on
- the files in a directory that has an icon, do an extended selection of
- iconmaker and the icon for the drawer (in that order). This is then
- equivalent to typing
-
- iconmaker device:drawer
-
- to the cli.
-
- The supplied icons are only samples; you will want to place your favorite
- ones in the icon_templates directory. The drawer icon is the standard
- amigados icon, whereas the project icon is one that I use for almost all my
- text files (it is setup with the default tool of ram:clicon and will invoke
- my editor on the file when clicked). The tool icon is a general tool icon
- that I found on a bbs but can't remember who should be acknowledged for it.
-
- Note that there is nothing magic about the name iconmaker, you may
- shorten it to anything you want.
-