Re: .info files. what are they?

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From: David Templeton
Date: Mon, 01 Apr 1996 21:29

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>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

>Adam Atkinson - ghira@mistral.co.uk / etlaman@etlxdmx.ericsson.se
>Viva la pappa col pomodoro!


  If there isn't a .info file in the directory you probably have never done a
"snapshot" of that dir.  The icons positions, window size, & position a stored
in the .info file not the drawer icon.



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