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Craig Metzer <metzer@netcom.com> writes:

>I would like to know how to edit or view the association of an icon
>(.info file).  I normally work with PCs and am new to AmigaDOS.  I'm
>running KS 1.3 on a 2000.
Going to try to help early...  so better advice might come along later!
If I remember right on (on 1.3 ) pulldown menus in the WB screen, the on
You need is INFORMATION.  to get it you click once on it then get this menu
highlighted/selected.  on 1.3 it's pretty lame but it atleast works.  Insid
e this screen there should be three lines with verticle version of <> in them.
these are what you cange (if they Exsist).  Realize there is a growing # of
programs that are PD that don't run on 1.3 so read the docs!  [I was a die hard
"Why get a new OS person too!  Beliee me it was worth ever penny for 2.05]  in
fact for the 2000 there is some PD sofware to soft boot into either 1.3 or 2.x
my friend is using on his 500,  it slows down his 68000 just a little but the
os is much more friendly than 3.x which I have and many PD things Guru!!!!!!!!!
the tool is like Super-View then use you iff viewer (give paths if not in
sys-path in startup-sequence) ect..)
>I know that there are 4 types of icon files (disk, directory [drawer],
>application[tool], and project[a file that's an argument to a tool]).  
>How do I know what application a project icon is associated with?  The
>manuals I have don't go that deep (or is it my head that's burried 
>deep?).

>This is what I'm having trouble with specifically: I download a file 
>from the fish disks.  I see icons for ReadMe type text files.  When I 
>click on them nothing happens.  This is because I don't have the app 
>(tool) it's looking for.  So, if I could figure out what tool it wants,
>I could get it and put it in the path.  Or, if I could change the 
>associated tool, I could use one that I have (Notepad, More, etc.).  The
>way that I've been dealing with this is to copy an icon that is 
>associated with something I have  to a file named what I want it to open 
>(did that make sense?).  This has been a pain in the neck though, since 
>the fish disks use mostly the same tool for text files.  It would be 
>easier if I could get the right tool.

>Hey, stupidity is a relative concept :)


>Craig
>metzer@netcom.com