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Article #30117Re: Mystery Disk Icon
From: Pierce T. Wetter
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 1988 19:41
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 1988 19:41
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>a floppy in the internal drive of my Mac II, it's desktop icon is not the
>old standard diskette picture, but a front view of the Mac II with an arrow
>pointing to the internal drive slot (the right one).
In your LAYO resource in your finder the "Use physical icon" bit is
checked. Hence it tells you the physical location of the disk. Personally I
would probably prefer a disk with "top, bottom left or right" printed in the
label field of the mini disk icon, but I didn't make the finder...
> What surprises me is that I can't find that particular icon in the
>finder, all I can find is the old standard diskette icon. Did apple somehow
Look in the ICN# resources not the ICON resources.
Pierce. Back in Black.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!elroy!cit-vax!tybalt.caltech.edu!wetter From: wetter@tybalt.caltech.edu (Pierce T. Wetter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Mystery Disk Icon Message-ID: <7261@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> Date: 13 Jul 88 19:41:05 GMT References: <5968@spool.cs.wisc.edu> Sender: news@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu Reply-To: wetter@tybalt.caltech.edu.UUCP (Pierce T. Wetter) Organization: California Institute of Technology Lines: 15