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From: sfalken@caen.engin.umich.edu (Steve Falkenburg)
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Subject: Background Apps
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Date: 27 Feb 91 00:46:43 GMT
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A while ago, there was a thread here on writing background-only apps.
On a related note, does anyone know what the story is behind the
"Background Folder" ?  If you create a folder named "Background
Folder" inside the System Folder under System 6, Finder will run the
_first_ app out of this folder.  In other words, you can take the
Backgrounder application, put it inside the Background Folder, and
it will run.

As I mentioned above, only the _first_ application from this folder
is run.  I solved this problem by writing an app (background only,
of course) to launch all other apps inside this folder.  This
seems to be a good way to get quite a few things going automatically,
without messing with "Set Startup..." in the Finder.

I don't remember where/how I discovered this, so I guess the first
question is...  Is this officially/unoficially supported?  If so,
where is it mentioned.  If not, why not?  And, if it is supported,
why launch only the _first_ application and not all of them?

Enough questions.  Anyone have any answers?

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