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From: dawyd@gargoyle.uchicago.edu (David Walton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Problem with icon for data files with Excel 2.2
Summary: It's not just Excel 2.2
Keywords: desktop, icons
Message-ID: <452@gargoyle.uchicago.edu>
Date: 10 Aug 89 21:33:29 GMT
References: <13626@netnews.upenn.edu>
Reply-To: dawyd@gargoyle.uchicago.edu.UUCP (David Walton)
Distribution: usa
Organization: U. Chicago Computer Science Dept.
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In article <13626@netnews.upenn.edu> jeff@eniac.seas.upenn.edu
(Jeffrey M White) writes:

>Has anyone else noticed this problem with data files using Excel
>2.2?  If the

[Describes how putting Excel doc on a separate disk causes doc to lose icon]

>This has never happened on any other application ever before.
>Systems include a Mac Plus and IIx, running 6.0.3, although I don't
>think this has any influence.  I'm not sure I can do much about it,
>but I would like to at least know that it's not only me.

I've seen this happen before with MacPaint and with Silicon Press (a
label-making program by Silicon Beach).  Since I've only got a vague
idea how the desktop file matches icons with file types, I don't know
why this happens.  Anybody care to explain?

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