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From: john@viper.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Well, GEMBOOT _almost_ works....
Message-ID: <829@viper.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 13-Apr-87 13:27:42 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr 13 13:27:42 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 15-Apr-87 03:37:00 EST
References: <3478@drutx.UUCP> <634@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <10157@cgl.ucsf.EDU>
Reply-To: john@viper.UUCP (John Stanley)
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Keywords: Fsfirst Fsnext auto

In article <10157@cgl.ucsf.EDU> 
pett@socrates.ucsf.edu.UUCP (Eric F. Pettersen) writes:
 >In article <634@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> 
 >engst@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu.UUCP (Adam C. Engst) writes:
 >>
 >>                                                   .... The only other
 >>program I have in the auto folder is M-disk (renamed to amdisk to access
 >>before Gemboot) ....
 >
 >The programs in *any* folder are *not* accessed in alphabetical order.  They
 >are accessed in the order they were originally placed in the folder.  It is
 >important to know this if, say, you are trying to list the files in a folder
 >alphabetically.
 >
 >				Eric Pettersen
 >				UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
 >				pett@cgl.ucsf.edu or ucbvax!ucsfcgl!pett

  Close Eric, but you left of an importandt point which would easily
allow someone to use your information and still get it wrong....

  What Eric said is correct if-you-start-with-an-empty-folder...  If the
folder did have files in it, you went in and deleted one of them, and then
added a file, the new file will probably take the place of the old file
in the file-sequence.

  The method I use to reorganize a folder is:
	1)  Create a new empty folder on my ramdisk with the name of
            the folder I want to replace.
        2)  Leave the ramdisk folder closed...
        3)  Open the original folder.
        4)  Copy the files ONE-AT-A-TIME into the closed ram-folder
        5)  Delete the original folder
        6)  Click and drag the CLOSED(!) ramfolder to it's new home.

(Many people don't quite understand how the ordering of files in an AUTO
folder really works...  Those that do often forget (or never knew) that
when you drag a CLOSED folder, the files end up in the same "real" order
as they were in the original...)

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John Stanley (john@viper.UUCP)
Software Consultant - DynaSoft Systems
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