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From: jba@gorm.ruc.dk (Jan B. Andersen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: startup items running order in system 7
Keywords: system 7, startup items
Message-ID: <1991Jun11.170759.17687@gorm.ruc.dk>
Date: 11 Jun 91 17:07:59 GMT
References: <44391@netnews.upenn.edu>
Organization: Roskilde University, Denmark
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takahash@grad1.cis.upenn.edu (Toshiyuki Takahashi) writes:

>In what order do applications in 'startup item' folder run in system 7?
Alphabetically??
>I got 'FinderToFront' from sumex, and placed in the startup item folder. Its
>file name has ~ for the first character so I thought it would run at the
>last. But it didn't !
>   I have also applicon, trash chute, darkside(trigo), alarm clock placed in
>the startup item folder. Applicon placed the tiles in the following order.
>  applicon, finder, (trash chute, ~FinderToFront)*, darkside(trigo) alias, 
>alarm clock alias       (* they exits soon, so It may be vice versa) 

>The same question goes to the running order of system extensions. Showing
>order of startup icons suggests that it is not alphabetic order. In system 6, 
>it was an alphabetic order.
In this case, I think Sys 7 does something like System Folder -> Extension
Folder -> Control Panels. That might explain the appearent non-alphabetic
order.

>Any idea? Thanks in advance.
I only put aliases in the Startup Folder, and prefix them with a "line
number".

>Toshiyuki Takahashi             e-mail: takahash@grad1.cis.upenn.edu
>CIS Graduate Student            University of Pennsylvania
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