Re: Icons of program

["Ben 'The Con Man' Kahn" <xkahn mail cybersites com>]

On 19 Apr 1998, Steve Dunham wrote:

> Couldn't you just use objcopy to add an additional section
> to the executable with the icon in it?  (Granted, this is sick and
> twisted, but it is possible.)
> 
> Actually, you can.  I just added "eeprom.c" to ls, with a section name
> of ".gnome" and the resulting executable runs fine:
> 
>   objcopy --add-section=.gnome=eeprom.c ls ls.new
> 
> This could be used to add icons to legacy binaries too...

	This is exactly what I'm talking about!  Thank you.

						-Ben

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