Re: [WinMac] Hidden Icon_ information

Leonard Rosenthol(leonardr[at]lazerware.com)
Tue, 13 Jul 1999 14:43:46 -0400

At 2:29 PM -0400 7/13/99, Parker, Douglas wrote:
>We create datafiles on WIN95 and Macs, saving the data on an NT server. Some
>of the Mac files have custom icons. When I use a WIN95 workstation to copy
>from my active area to my archive area, WINDOWS will hang on the invisible
>Icon_, claiming it can't be found.
>
>I'm going to experiment with the visibility bit, to see it that's the
>problem. Then I'm going to look at the Mac filename and look for a non-WIN
>character hiding in the Icon_ filename.
>
>Do you something about this that I don't? :-)
>
        The file that stores custom icons for folders is named
"icon<cr>" (where <cr> is the carriage return, ASCII 13).

Leonard

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