

ReadMeFirst AddIcon Version 1.7 (C) 1992 by H.P.G FreeWare


    A Short Overview:
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    AddIcon is a cli tool that  enables  you  to  copy  icons  to  files
    and dirs in a very easy manner.

    AddIcon has a lot of cli options.

    AI supports PatternMatching (that means use  of  #?  ~#?  [a-u])  in
    filenames like original AmigaDOS standart.

    AddIcon needs OS 2.xx. Version 36  may  have  problems,  because  of
    some functions which have not  been  implemented  in  this  version.
    Because of using a lot of  the  new  OS  2.0  features,  AI  is  not
    able to run under OS 1.2 and 1.3.
    It is recommented to use Kickstart  versions  greater  than  Version
    36.

    The icons, AI adds to  the  specified  files,  must  be  located  in
    the logical device or assign 'Icons:'.
    You can simply copy the Icons on this  disk  to  your  WBench  disk.
    Then  you  have  to  insert  the   following   line   in   to   your
    Startup-Sequence:

    Assign Icons: <name of the dir your icons are located>

    AddIcon  automatically  knows  many  different   types   of   files.
    AI recognizes the type of an file  first  by  analysing  its  suffix
    '.xx'                                                              .

    E.g. a file with extension '.c' will always be analysed as a C
         source.

    Files with suffixes '.ilbm' will be recognized as PICTURES.

    If AI finds  a  file  without  suffix  it  looks  in  the  file  for
    Iff-Chunks.

    If AI finds no chunk  it  reads  the  file.  If  the  file  contains
    more than 90% ASCII chars it would be handeled  as  an  ASCII  file.

    Warning: On large files it can take a lot of time to read the file.

    If AI can find the type of file in  this  way  it  copies  the  icon
    according to the found type to it.

    Surely you can change the  icons  or  use  yourown  icons  with  AI.
    So you can  change  e.g.  the  DefaultTool  of  a  project  icon  to
    yourown                                                        need.

    If you use  e.g  TurboText  as  text  editor,  you  can  change  the
    DefaultTool of  the  ASCII  icon  simply  to  'c:TTX'.  If  you  now
    doubleclick  on  this  icon,  TTX  will  be   automatically   called
    with the filename of the icon.

    This  does  the  same  with  all  other  project  icons.   But   the
    programms  you  want  to  start,  must  have  be  the   ability   of
    extended selections via WBench.

