Re: It's not a problem

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From: Paul Durrant
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 00:00

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In article <19980113140647637778@newtechd.demon.co.uk>,
alan.frame@acm.org (Alan W. Frame) wrote:

> Paul Durrant <pdurrant@durrant.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > It's purely cosmetic. The icon display code isn't part of the system
> > software, each extension includes it's own copy.
> 
> AIUI a lot of extensions used something like: "Paul Mercer's ShowInit"
> PD code rather than the writer's own?
> 
> ISTR that wraps the icons properly.

You're mostly right. I suspect everyone uses the ShowInit code.
Unfortunately, not everyone uses a recent version. The earlier ones didn't
wrap icons.

Paul

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From: pdurrant@durrant.demon.co.uk (Paul Durrant)
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Date: 1998/01/13
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