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From: ml10+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael A. Libes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: How to get background app to start at boot?
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Date: 9 Aug 90 21:25:38 GMT
References: <6029@milton.u.washington.edu>,
	<129@skye.cs.ed.ac.uk>
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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.

This is a bug in System 6.0.x.  In System 7, Darkness actually shows up
in the "About Finder" memory usage dialog.

    - Lunarmobiscuit