NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #30/NN_1992_30.iso/spool/comp/sys/amiga/misc/18779

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From: [e-mail] (Sam Hulick)
Subject: Re: Good news!  Tired of vague filenames? ...
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In article <[e-mail]>, cs_e445@ceres (Vlod Kalicun) says most sayishly:
>I would love something like this that could be used from the workbench.
>ie double click on a text file and it ppmore gets loaded.
>I know you can assign .info files or drag them into a toolmanger icon.
>
>Also since Im dreaming :) what about this, when you open a window with
>a mixture of files in it, all the files are processed, and depending on what
>type of class it was, it would have a default icon.
>eg All the text files would have a 'book' icon, all sample files would have
>a 'note' icon etc..

This has been done.  I believe the program is simply called "Icon."
Look for it on Fish.  It assumes the type of a file by examining
extensions, I believe, and assigns icons.  A tad buggy, but it's nice.

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