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From: oleary@ux.acs.umn.edu (Doc O'Leary)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Bringing Finder frontmost after Startup Items run
Message-ID: <4072@ux.acs.umn.edu>
Date: 7 Jun 91 05:52:53 GMT
References: <1991Jun4.155851.23146@mmm.serc.3m.com> <1991Jun5.175045.10002@amd.com> <1991Jun5.224338.10423@umiami.ir.miami.edu>
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In article <1991Jun5.224338.10423@umiami.ir.miami.edu> dweisman@umiami.ir.miami.edu (Ordinary Man) writes:

>In article <1991Jun5.175045.10002@amd.com>, ching@brahms.amd.com (Mike Ching) writes:
>> 
>> Ditto. I couldn't get the hard-disk-alias-in-the-startup-folder trick to
>> work.
>
>That's because you have to make sure that you name the alias with a ~ in front 
>of its name as in: ~Hard Disk
>
>That way it gets "Started up" last. That comment got axed by the recent 
>followups.

Not so.  Some of the applications I have opening at startup are quite happy
to give up a few ticks as they open (My comm program loves the background).
The Finder, of course, is more than happy to use those ticks to open other
things.  When the backgrounded applications want to finish opening, they come
back to the foreground and take some more ticks.  Thus, even though my HD
alias is last to be opened, it does not bring the Finder to the front.

         ---------   Doc


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