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Article #2788Re: Problem with icon for data files with Excel 2.2
From: David Walton
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1989 21:33
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1989 21:33
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In article <13626@netnews.upenn.edu> jeff@eniac.seas.upenn.edu
(Jeffrey M White) writes:
>Has anyone else noticed this problem with data files using Excel
>2.2? If the
[Describes how putting Excel doc on a separate disk causes doc to lose icon]
>This has never happened on any other application ever before.
>Systems include a Mac Plus and IIx, running 6.0.3, although I don't
>think this has any influence. I'm not sure I can do much about it,
>but I would like to at least know that it's not only me.
I've seen this happen before with MacPaint and with Silicon Press (a
label-making program by Silicon Beach). Since I've only got a vague
idea how the desktop file matches icons with file types, I don't know
why this happens. Anybody care to explain?
--
David Walton Internet: dawyd@tartarus.UChicago.EDU
U. Chicago Computer { Any opinions are my own, not those }
Science Macintosh Lab { of my employers (or anybody else). }
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!tank!gargoyle!dawyd From: dawyd@gargoyle.uchicago.edu (David Walton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Problem with icon for data files with Excel 2.2 Summary: It's not just Excel 2.2 Keywords: desktop, icons Message-ID: <452@gargoyle.uchicago.edu> Date: 10 Aug 89 21:33:29 GMT References: <13626@netnews.upenn.edu> Reply-To: dawyd@gargoyle.uchicago.edu.UUCP (David Walton) Distribution: usa Organization: U. Chicago Computer Science Dept. Lines: 23