Instructions for installing Icons in your GEOS.INI 

In order to be able to use the icons that the Icon Maker files have, you will need to edit your GEOS.INI file  (A bad thing to do, but since you're gonna do it any way....) . Find the section that begins:

[fileManager]
filenameTokens = {
	*.EXE = "gDOS",0
	*.COM = "gDOS",0
	*.BAT = "gDOS",0
	*.TXT = "FILE",0,"NPAD",0
	*.DOC = "FILE",0,"NPAD",0
	*.HLP = "FILE",0,"NPAD",0
	*.WQ1 = "VWQ1",0,"VIEW",0
	*.WK1 = "VWK1",0,"VIEW",0
	*.EPS = "VEPS",0,"VIEW",0
}

This section tells PC/GEOS what Icons to use for certain files. For instance, 
		*.BAT = "gDOS",0 

tells GEOS that every time in encounters a file with the DOS 8.3 name that ends with .BAT, it should use the icon with the token "gDOS" and the manufacturer id "0". Every one of the icons in this zip file and in the ones to follow, use the manufacturer id "255". The file itself is a very small PC/GEOS application that does nothing. You can start it up and shut it down, and move it around on the screen, but that's it. To use the icon in your GeoWorks installation, add it to your GEOS.INI file in the above section. For instance, there is a file called nBAT that has a ball and bat in it's icon. If you wanted to use it for .BAT files (Bad pun ... I like it), you would edit the line in your GEOS.INI file to look like this:

		*.BAT = "nBAT",255

Remember this: The file name is the token name, and they all have the manufacturer id of 255.

Later on, I will upload some icon makers that will change some of those drab system icons into something a bit jazzier.

For more information on assigning Icons in your Token.DB file, please download the file I wrote about that subject.

Credit for most of the artwork goes to Jay Degn (GWRepJay). I did a few of these and will be doing more in the future. You say "How can I design Icons?" Look for a how to guide coming to a library near you soon.

Have fun,

Jim Kirkpatrick (Doc Icon)