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: Adam Atkinson - ghira@mistral.co.uk / etlaman@etlxdmx.ericsson.se poses 
this question to the masses:

: I keep finding files called only ".info" in oldish archives. What are/were
: they for? 

	they hold the names of the directory,files,projects,tools ...  that 
have .info files.
 
(the answer to the next Q: 'what are .info files', that's sure to come 
up)  
	the icons, those pritty/ugly (however u see it) pictures of 
directories, files, disks, projects, tools, .....

	thus the <filename>.info or <dirname>.info, and of course 
disk.info (the icon of your disk)

				there U B. ME!

On 28 Mar 96 22:14:32 +0000, Adam Atkinson articulated:
<> I keep finding files called only ".info" in oldish archives. What are/were
<> they for? 

The .info files hold the icon's snapshotted (sp?) position within a window.

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In article dated 28 Mar 96 22:14:32 +0000, Adam Atkinson (ghira@mistral.co.uk) wrote:
> I keep finding files called only ".info" in oldish archives. What are/were
> they for? 

They were used to store a list of files with icons in a directory for use
by Workbench when you opened the drawer.  They went out with V2 and higher
and you may delete them.

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>I keep finding files called only ".info" in oldish archives. What are/were
>they for?

>Adam Atkinson - ghira@mistral.co.uk / etlaman@etlxdmx.ericsson.se
>If I were a fuzzy-wuzzy bear, 3 would be a perfect square.
>If I were a bumble bee, Z would be a UFD.

Workbench uses these files to determine where the window for that particular
drawer's going to be opened.

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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!

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> writes:

>Adam Atkinson (ghira@mistral.co.uk) wrote:
>> 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

Right. The drawer data is stored in drawer.info. The .info files
kept the list of icon names so that workbench doesn't have to
scan the directory for #?.info files when it opens a drawer. The
.info file is timestamped, when it gets out of date compared to
the modification date of the directory then it is ignored and
then recreated after the directory scan if the disk was writeable.

>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

Dunno about the update script, but yes, the .info files aren't used
anymore since WB2.0. Directory scanning speed is much faster in 2.0
and the need for .info files is gone.

Regards,
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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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>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!

No, they're not used anymore. They were considered obsolete when WB 2 was
released.


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                        (did I forget something??)

On 01-Apr-96 22:29:40, David Templeton wrote:

>  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.

Buy yourself a contemporary OS. :-)

3.1 would be a good suggestion.

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