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From: jas@ISI.EDU (Jeff Sullivan)
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Subject: Re: Finder to Front Application
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Date: 18 Jun 91 17:08:23 GMT
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In-reply-to: hooverb@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu's message of 18 Jun 91 06:13:59 GMT

In article <1629@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu> hooverb@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu (Bruce Hoover) writes:

>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 

I don'thave an elaborate setup (MacEyes and an alias of Versaterm) in
my startup folder, but when I dropped FTF in, it worked fine.  And
that's with one alias and one real app.

Why is mine working correctly?

jas
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