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From: nick@cs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell)
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Subject: Re: How to get background app to start at boot?
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Date: 9 Aug 90 11:05:46 GMT
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In article <6029@milton.u.washington.edu>, bose@milton.u.washington.edu
(Rob Olsen) writes:
> I think that Darkness is one of those type of Application which run
only on the background like INIT.  It is posted on comp.mac.biniary and
the sourc code are
> included.  What I do is just set Darkness as my start-up application
with multi-finder.

There's a problem with this. You can't run Darkness *and* a DA at
startup. The MultiFinder options are:

	Start up with selected items;
	Start up with currently open apps and DA's.

Option (i) doesn't open the DA. Option (ii) doesn't open Darkness.

Nick Rothwell,	Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh.
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