[G4] Re: The Spinning Gear

[Richard M. Kriss]

> Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 16:39:59 -0800
> From: John Baltutis <baltwo at san.rr.com>
> Subject: Re: [G4] Picture of Turning Crank
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> On 11/18/05, you wrote:
>> 
>> Anyone know where I can get a picture of the tuning crank that displays
>> while OSX is starting to load?  Don't know how to do a screen shot of the
>> loading cycle.  Anybody seen a picture of it in docs where it could be
>> leached?
>> 
> 
> It's called the spinning gear. In Terminal: type "gear.tif" How you make it
> spin is another matter.

I tried that and could not get it to display. I then typed in gear.tif in
the Spotlight.  It displayed the gear for a fraction of a second and moved
on.  If I could get the stupid spotlight to stop on the gear.tif picture, I
could snap a screenshot.