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From: rosenkra@Alliant.COM (Bill Rosenkranz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: AUTO-exec sequence
Message-ID: <1520@alliant.Alliant.COM>
Date: 1 Apr 88 05:45:02 GMT
References: <80@ucsvc.dn.mu.oz> <26213@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>
Reply-To: rosenkra@alliant.UUCP (Bill Rosenkranz)
Organization: Alliant Computer Systems, Littleton, MA
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In article <26213@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> Ram-Ashwin@cs.yale.edu (Ashwin Ram)
writes:
->In article <80@ucsvc.dn.mu.oz>, u6408954@ucsvc (Kel Raywood) writes:
->> Does anyone know how to set the sequence in which programs are executed in
->> the AUTO folder on the boot disk?
->
->They are executed in the order in which they appear on the disk.  This is the
->order in which you copied them to the AUTO folder, assuming you didn't delete
->anything during the process.  (Deletion leaves holes which could be filled by
->files that you copy later, which would then appear earlier on disk.)
->
->-- Ashwin.


BTW: if anybody wants it, i have a utility called rdir which reads the
directory in Fs{first,next} order and prints it out. this is helpful for the
above discussion so you know exactly the order in which the auto folder stuff
gets booted (i presume it is not date order as the owner's manual would have
you believe. i never did find out what the "in order" criteria was so i
always put things in the auto folder by first deleting everyting then
copy in date/FAT order anyway so i'm covered both ways...paranoid i guess).

i don't have time to respond to email requests. if someone gives me EXPLICIT
mailing directions, i'll post to ...sources.atari.st. otherwise i'll post
here. i'm not on bitnet either so it must be uucp. this posting will include
very unix-like {open,read,close}dir routines as well (i ported this to unix
instantly and we use it here, only it gives REAL inode numbers :^)

-bill