Addicons Adds Program Groups and Icons to Program Manager (97843)

SUMMARY

Because LAN Manager 2.2 setup is MS-DOS-based and requires dynamic data exchange, Setup uses the Addicons utility as a proxy to add icons to the Program Manager.

During installation, Setup creates an ADDICONS.INI file--which describes what program groups to create and what icons to put in them--then adds Addicons to the LOAD= line of WIN.INI.

The first time Windows is loaded after LAN Manager setup, Addicons reads its .INI file, adds the groups and icons, removes itself from the WIN.INI LOAD= line, and exits.

Here is a sample .INI file in which two groups are made: Group1 (LAN Manager) has one program added, and TestGrp (The cool test group!) has two programs added.

[groups]
  group1=LAN Manager
  TestGrp=The cool test group!

[group1]
  1=NetAdmin,c:\lm22.dos\netprog\netadmin.exe

[TestGrp]
  1=notepad,notepad.exe
  2=Wonder Term, c:\windows\bogus\path\to\wondtrm.exe