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davidr@hplsla.HP.COM (David M. Reed) writes:

>While this could be built into
>MSWindows, I suspect that there is some other program (perhaps in the
>SYSTEM directory) that is actually invoked with appropriate parameters
>to make these changes. I envision something along the lines of
>    wingrp /a main.grp "Command Prompt" "COMMAND.COM" "PROGMAN.EXE" 1
>which would add to the MAIN.GRP file an entry named "Command Prompt" which
>would run the program "COMMAND.COM", and base its icon on the 1st entry
>in the file "PROGMAN.EXE".  I would expect that selecting File Delete for
>a highlighted icon would invoke a command like
>    wingrp /d main.grp "Command Prompt"
>to remove the appropriate entry.

>Does such a program exist?  Can it be used outside of MSWindows?

No to both.  Modification of .GRP files *is* built in to Program Manager.
(actually, almost everything Windows does is "built-in" in this sense)
Other programs can modify .GRP files by requesting that a change be made by
Program Manager.  This is how you can drag a program from the File Manager
into a Program Manager group, and have it work properly.  The actual
mechanism is a rather tedious process involving DDE, but it can be done
rather easily.  Most Windows application installation programs do this.

 - Wolf