Re: Reviewing data in the debian-cd packages

[Michael Schmitz <schmitz@biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de>]

Hi,

> > IIRC the initial .info files (icon data needed by AmigaOS in order to
> > start particular install shell scripts) were created by Frank Neumann.
> > The others are by Christian. All were intended for distribution with the
> > install CDs (but Christian should perhaps confirm that). My impression
> > was that these files are created by some sort of resource editor which is
> > part of AmigaOS, so there's no source (though the file format should not
> > be too difficult to reverse engineer).
>
> Uh, well... IconEditor is part of every AmigaOS installation. But there's no
> magic in the file format and usually there should be tools that can convert
> from/to *.info. At least http://linux.die.net/man/1/infotopam gives a short
> description of the format and I wouldn't mind if someone would replace the
> old icons with some (smaller) new ones. ;)

The description there gives little detail on the contents of the .info files 
aside from the icon image data. Is the file name of the associated script 
encoded in the icon file itself?

If it's just about the image data, a conversion tool could be written for Linux.

> > > They probably shouldn't be living in tar archives anyway. :)
> > Perhaps not - there may be special permissions required for these files
> > to be properly recognized, though (at least that's the case for start
> > scripts).
>
> True, Amiga file permissions are rather different from Unix file
> permissions. Just mind the Script (S) or Delete (D) flags.

Do the icons need the script bit set?

	Michael