Re: .info files. what are they?

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From: Alan Peter Suggitt
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 20:36

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Adam Atkinson (ghira@mistral.co.uk) wrote:
> On 31-Mar-96 00:13:16, Jonas Thorell said:
> >>I keep finding files called only ".info" in oldish archives. What are/were
> >>they for?
> 
> >Workbench uses these files to determine where the window for that particular
> >drawer's going to be opened.
> 
> Does it STILL use them? Most of my drawers don't contain a ".info". I
> imaged the window position would be stored in drawer.info rather than
> drawer/.info
> 

I think it was only used by prior to 2.0, the 2.04 UpdateWB script
specifically deleted the .info files from the sys: directories

------------------------------>&----------------------------------------
; Delete all ".info" files
;
list target:#? all files pat=.info lformat "delete *"%p%n*" quiet" >t:dinfo
execute t:dinfo
delete ram:delexist quiet
;
------------------------------>&----------------------------------------

Sug
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 Alan Peter Suggitt <sug@apsayton.demon.co.uk>
    Warped A4000 -- "Multimedia by design"

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