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ReadMeFirst AddIcon Version 1.7 (C) 1992 by H.P.G FreeWare
A Short Overview:
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AddIcon is a cli tool that enables you to copy icons to files
and dirs in a very easy manner.
AddIcon has a lot of cli options.
AI supports PatternMatching (that means use of #? ~#? [a-u]) in
filenames like original AmigaDOS standart.
AddIcon needs OS 2.xx. Version 36 may have problems, because of
some functions which have not been implemented in this version.
Because of using a lot of the new OS 2.0 features, AI is not
able to run under OS 1.2 and 1.3.
It is recommented to use Kickstart versions greater than Version
36.
The icons, AI adds to the specified files, must be located in
the logical device or assign 'Icons:'.
You can simply copy the Icons on this disk to your WBench disk.
Then you have to insert the following line in to your
Startup-Sequence:
Assign Icons: <name of the dir your icons are located>
AddIcon automatically knows many different types of files.
AI recognizes the type of an file first by analysing its suffix
'.xx' .
E.g. a file with extension '.c' will always be analysed as a C
source.
Files with suffixes '.ilbm' will be recognized as PICTURES.
If AI finds a file without suffix it looks in the file for
Iff-Chunks.
If AI finds no chunk it reads the file. If the file contains
more than 90% ASCII chars it would be handeled as an ASCII file.
Warning: On large files it can take a lot of time to read the file.
If AI can find the type of file in this way it copies the icon
according to the found type to it.
Surely you can change the icons or use yourown icons with AI.
So you can change e.g. the DefaultTool of a project icon to
yourown need.
If you use e.g TurboText as text editor, you can change the
DefaultTool of the ASCII icon simply to 'c:TTX'. If you now
doubleclick on this icon, TTX will be automatically called
with the filename of the icon.
This does the same with all other project icons. But the
programms you want to start, must have be the ability of
extended selections via WBench.