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From: preston@felix.UUCP (Preston Bannister)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Enough already! (Was: AUTO-exec sequence)
Message-ID: <28139@felix.UUCP>
Date: 8 Apr 88 01:42:12 GMT
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Come on guys!  This isn't any great mystery. :-)

The first day I had my ST I read (in the documentation) that the order
that programs are run is their order in the \AUTO folder.

It makes sense if you put yourself in the place of the guy writing the
TOS code.  The most straight-forward way to do this is call Fsfirst()
and Fsnext() on "\AUTO\*.PRG", which will give you the files in the
order they were placed in the directory.  

Any other order would require loading and sorting the directory first.

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Preston L. Bannister
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