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In article <8drZRCX0BwwbM17E1s@transarc.com> Lyle_Seaman@transarc.com writes:
>  I was told that during the login process, NeXT systems go looking
>  through every directory in the path and read the first few bytes of
>  every file in order to set an icon.  This is as nearly exact as I
>  recall the statement.  Is there any truth to this?  (It seems to me
>  that login would take even longer than it does if this were so).

On login, the Workspace Manager goes through the /NextApps, /NextAdmin,  
/LocalApps, and ~/Apps directories and examines the __ICON Mach-O segment of  
every executable it finds (you can add more directories with the dwrite  
command).  There it gets all of the apps names, the files they can open, and  
what services they provide.  The icons themselves are located in the __ICON  
segment, but I don't think the Workspace retrieves them until they are needed.   
In any event, it does this rather quickly.


andrew
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