OS/2 Icon

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File Format
Name OS/2 Icon
Ontology
Extension(s) .ico
Released 1988
OS/2 Icon is an icon format related to OS/2 BMP, and sometimes considered to be a member of the OS/2 BMP family of formats. It is very similar to OS/2 Pointer format. It is not particularly similar to Windows ICO format.

There is a color format, and a bi-level format. Multiple icons may be stored in the same file using the "bitmap array" ("BA") container format. The BA format may be used even when the file contains only one icon.

OS/2 icons are sometimes embedded as resources in OS/2 Linear Executable files.

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Identification

An OS/2 Icon file may begin with ASCII characters "CI" (color), or "IC" (bi-level). Or, it may begin with "BA", and have (usually) "CI" or "IC" at offset 14.

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BA/CI

(Most, but not all, of the icons at these locations use BA/CI format.)

BA/IC

CI

IC

  • 2736.ZIP - The 288-byte ICO files are in IC format. For example MOUSE.ICO, PC2PC.ICO.

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