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From: ralph@lasso.UUCP (Ralph P. Sobek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Auto-EXEC sequence
Message-ID: <8804081645.AA07989@lasso.laas.fr>
Date: 8 Apr 88 16:45:19 GMT
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|  RE: auto execute order
|  
|  Find an auto folder with serveral programs in it already, or
|  just copy a few programs into it if it's empty. Use the
|  SHOW INFO menu in DESKTOP to change filenames to modified
|  the file time stamp, the order of programs being executed
|  can be changed.

My tests with the \AUTO\ folder do NOT exactly produce your results.
Executable files in the folder are executed in the order of their physical
presence: first-in first-executed.  Non-executable files are skipped over!
Using your method to change GDOS.PRG to GDOS.PRZ causes it to be skipped
over, also.  If I rename it back, it executes at the place that it originally
executed.

Therefore, one can construct the \AUTO\ folder in a lattice, and by renaming,
have the equivalent of multiple boot auto-EXEC sequences.

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