#: 5591 S15/Hot Topics
    26-Jul-90  18:46:02
Sb: #5588-Is Basic out of date?
Fm: Kevin Darling (UG Pres) 76703,4227
To: Jim Williams 72157,3524 (X)

Aye, the coco's gshell (gfx shell) does the same, tho with slightly different
file methods.

On the Amiga, you use a xxx.info file for each program; the coco took after the
IBM PIF file idea and uses generic  "aif.xxx" files, where the xxx is an
extension. So a program with the name, say, "picture.gif"  would use the icon
named in "aif.gif", and be passed as a parameter to the program named in
aif.gif.  The aif file is editable english... the icons are kept in one main
directory.

Some kind of combo deal would be nice.