Burn AmigaCDs under other OS is OK, but w/ about the icons ?

[xaccrocheur]

To avoid being forced to "show all files", from the WB I *have* to generate de .icon files for all my (many) dirs on the CD I'm doing.

I'm ready to code some quick script to do this, as I just did one in Perl to strip the spaces in filenames, and another in BASH to create dir named after the archive minus the filename, extract it (lha, zip, lzh & arj) test it and delete the archive.

I'm working on a HTML index generator too, for that matter.

Now what I must know is what exactly is an icon file. Any info about that ? I can only find outdated (ie 404 dead) pages when goggleing for Amiga tech infos...  :-(

When I open the faile in a plain text editor, it's obvious that this is abinary file... Damn, this is not gonna be easy, but I'm willing to try, so please point me to ANY possible source of info where I could dig this sort of file format description.

any app that would already do that, even if runs only under windows (ptoui) would do, too !

thanks !

pX

[xaccrocheur]

Ehm...  8-)

I know that, LP, even the WB itself, if you [color=CC0000]select some files, hit ->A+I, and then repetedly "Save"[/color], you'll have your icons, it adds one to any dir.

BTW, When you read what appears to you a REALLY silly question, it's often best to read it again carefully :-P (don't gemme wrong, answerering IS cool 1st thing)

[color=990000]Now[/color][/i] what I want to do it to generate the said icons under [color=990000]another[/color][/i] OS, namely Linux MDK ! (any would do but Amiga 4 that matter)

And furthermore, I'd like a big bunch of info about what those icon files really are. (and many other aspects of this quite closed-source and info system  :-P  :rtfm:  :roll:

Does this system stays in AOS4 ? It's just a question. I'm sure it could be improved.

pX

[xaccrocheur]

@  Zadoc
I knew about those neat "cached" links (thanks, I may not have), I'm talking about *Live* Amiga links pages that lead to 404s ! MORE and MORE of them !

@vortexau
OK, vortexau, thanks 4 the insight, I guess the short answer is the expecte : NO.

Oh well, I was relifed already to see that my Data-CDs, created with that new shell-integrated KDE-app "K3B" are readable on my 4000 SCSI CD drive, without any other hassle than the "show all files", so that's really a minor annoyance.

BTW, what does ISO Level mean ? I can choose BTween 1, 2 and 3, the latest being the default, but what does it really do ?

Thanks

[xaccrocheur]

It's not irrelevant ! Next tim I'll try this. I wanted to know what tied an icon to a file

Thank you

pX