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From: hooverb@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu (Bruce Hoover)
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Subject: Re: Finder to Front Application
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Date: 18 Jun 91 06:13:59 GMT
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From article <1991Jun17.124955.6093@cs.utk.edu>, by danny@utkux1.utk.edu (Danny McCampbell):
> Has anybody retrieved the Startup Application Finder to Front yet?
> If so, what are your comments?  The reason I ask is because I have two
> aliases in the Startup Items Folder along with FTF and no matter how I 
> order them with the !, #, ~ characters Finder to Front always launches 
> second.  Any ideas or was aliases overlooked when writing the program?
> Thanks.
> 
> Danny


I had the exact same problem.

It seems that the names in italics (for aliases) all happen after
anything in regular type.

I cured this in a not too elegant fashion by making an aliases of the
FinderToFront program (I put the original somewhere else) now the
FinderToFront name (with a ~ in front is how mine came) is also in
Italics and will execute last like it was supposed to.

I don't have any non-aliases in the startup folder, but they should all
start first with no problem.

It would make the program more usefull if it took aliases into account,
though.

Hope this helps,

Bruce Hoover