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From: john@viper.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Well, GEMBOOT _almost_ works.... (AUTO file order)
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Date: Mon, 13-Apr-87 13:36:25 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr 13 13:36:25 1987
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Reply-To: john@viper.UUCP (John Stanley)
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Keywords: Fsfirst Fsnext auto


For those of you who may not have an ST or for those who do and
are still confused:

  The Gem Desktop utility sorts the displayed file lists into on of
four different sorting orders.  There is no (known to me) way to shut
off the sorting.  In most cases, none of the sortings display the
real order that the files lie on the disk.  The AUTO folder contains
programs that are run at boot-up time.  The AUTO programs are run in
"real" file order, not any of the sorted orderings...

  This means that unless you are careful, you will have no control
over which boot programs are run first, 2nd,... last...  The method I
gave in my previous message explains a method which will allow people
to -exactly- order the sequence of auto programs.

  The "trick" is that while files in an open folder (where the directory
is displayed) when copied end up in the sorted order, when you copy a
closed folder, the files end up in the same order they're "really" in
because the desktop doesn't sort the contents of a closed folder....

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