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davism@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mik Davis) writes:
>  As this project would seem to involve altering the filer in a fairly major
>way, how about allowing directories to have sprites anyway (rather that having
>to use up one of your characters labelling it) I don't know whether this would 
>be anything like possible realy though.
>  If we must have a 'special character' to mark a directory which has an icon
>then can we have somethin unobtrusive like '-' NOT '*' or '?' etc. "~' might
>be quite usefull...

Well I used to not have a label like you suggest. But the problem I had with
this was that if another application went and did an IconSprite to include a
sprite for it's windows and it so happened that I had a directory called that
my sprite would get redefined. (Good example Arch World's Waiter program
often had a sprite called Games)

I now use a special character I never have used '*'. In my original letter I
used * since the character I use does not exist in unix. I did in fact
state this in the article. The character I use is the one that looks like:


               \.-./
                | |
               /`-'\

Well nearly anyway :-) Nothing uses that at the moment and I have never seen
a sprite in the icon sprite pool with that character in it. Anyone know what
that character is called ?

Andrew Hersee

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