[comp.sys.mac.programmer] RE a funny thing happened after the crash

mxmora@unix.SRI.COM (Matt Mora) (01/09/90)

Thank you for all the replies.

In article <7567@unix.SRI.COM> I wrote:
> A friend had a strange thing happen to his SE after a system
> crash. The format disk icon, the icon that shows a Mac with
> an arrow pointing to the slot where the disk is, now shows
> up on the desktop when ever he inserts a disk. The funny thing
> is that the arrow points to the correct slot! If he puts
> two disks in, two Mac icons show up with the arrows pointing
> to the correct disk slots. Does anyone know what is going on?
> This would be a pretty neat hack. It was my understanding
> that those icons are hard coded somewhere in one of the PACK's. 


It was that the "use physical icon" bit was set in the
LAYO resource in the finder and had nothing to do
with the crash. I asked the person before I posted
if he was using any new INIT's or CDEV's. He said "no". Then
I told him the responses I got from the net and
he said "Oh that's right I just set that bit
using Layout 1.9"


Does anyone know what the other bits are for?
Are the documented somewhere?

Thanks again for the replies.

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Matthew Mora
SRI International                       mxmora@unix.sri.com
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