Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!think!samsung!usc!apple!decwrl!argosy!jay From: jay@argosy.UUCP (Jay O'Conor) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: What is Backgrounder? FinderStartup? Message-ID: <568@argosy.UUCP> Date: 5 Jun 90 23:14:54 GMT References: <8541@goofy.Apple.COM> Sender: news@argosy.UUCP Reply-To: jay@idiot.UUCP (Jay O'Conor) Organization: MasPar Computer Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 28 In article <8541@goofy.Apple.COM> chewy@apple.com (Paul Snively) writes: > >Backgrounder is a bit weirder: it's a little application with no user >interface that's always running if you are running MultiFinder. Its sole >task (pre-System 7.0) is to check to see if the user prints with >background printing and, if so, it launches Print Monitor automagically. >The intent was always to provide some kind of ability to automagically >launch stuff that always did its thing "in the background," but it's taken >us System 7.0 to actually get that working (System 7.0 will feature a >"Startup Items" folder into which you can drop stuff that you want >launched whenever you boot). > Huh? 6.0.4 (and probably 6.0.5, but I haven't tried it) supports automatically launching apps at boot time if they're in the "Background Folder" within the System Folder. At least I think it's named "Background Folder". I'm not at my Mac at the moment, so I can't verify the name, but it's there and I know it works 'cause I use it to launch the Globe app (it makes a fun program to monitor how well MultiFinder multitasking is performing). How does System 7.0's "Startup Items" differ from the current "Background Folder"? One thing that _will_ be nice about 7.0 in this regard will be the ability to drop an alias for the app into the "Startup Items" folder. At least I assume this will be possible. Anyone care to confirm/deny this? Jay O'Conor jay@maspar.com