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Available - THE OS/2 Icon Collection #10
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fred Ng)
Sun Mar 31 05:48:24 1996
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: 31 Mar 1996 04:19:49 GMT
From: fredng@io.org (Fred Ng)
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THE OS/2 Icon Collection #10 (Mar. 23, 1996)
THE OS/2 Icon Collection #10 has been uploaded to the following FTP sites:
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/incoming
[to be moved to ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/multimedia/icons]
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/os2/incoming
[to be moved to ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/os2/multimed/icons]
There are three editions available:
IconEase Edition: ticn10ie.zip
Icon Heaven Edition: ticn10ih.zip
Standard .ICO Edition: ticn10ic.zip
To decompress them with the EAs intact, InfoZIP's Unzip (latest OS/2 version
5.12 - http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/os2/archiver/unz512x2.exe) is required.
What is THE OS/2 Icon Collection Anyway?
THE OS/2 Icon Collection is one of the largest/best (IMHO) OS/2 2.x/3.0
icon collections on the Internet, with over 3700 (3765 to be exact) icons. If
you've been longing for some high-quality icons to dress up your OS/2 Desktop,
then you must get it! They are also great for decorating your homepages, too!
For those of you who have Hobbes Archived/Ready to Run for OS/2 CD-ROMs from
Walnut Creek, many of the icons in this library are featured there; however,
they haven't been updating their collection since late 1994 (many icons are
from #6), so you'll miss several hundred new/ improved ones added over the
past year and a half if you don't want to set aside some HD space for icon
storage.
Why 3 Different Editions?
There are always more than one approach to solving a problem, and sometimes
there is not a significantly superior one. In this case, we want to enjoy
drag-n-drop icon assignments, yet without the waste in precious disk space,
especially when storing the thousands of icons (in .ICO format) on FAT partitions,
where clusters could be as big as 32KB. The two proprietary icon storage
formats introduced here provide built-in compression, saving up to 61% of disk
space over the standard .ICO format (based on my tests on HPFS, results are
more impressive under FAT). Dave Lester uses the notebook metaphor in
IconEase, whereas Paul van Keep takes advantage of folders in Icon Heaven. I
can't really recommend one over another, so you might want to try them out
first before deciding which program to go for. They are available at the
following locations:
IconEase 2.02 - ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/os2/graphics/icone202.zip
Icon Heaven 1.11 - ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/os2/incoming/fih111.zip
*to be moved to*
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/os2/wpsutil/fih111.zip
For those who have large HPFS partitions, the standard .ICO edition might be
the one for you; it retains the standard OS/2 .ICO format, which would be more
convenient if you are planning to convert some of the icons for use on your
homepages. Otherwise, get either the IconEase or Icon Heaven edition...
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