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From: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: AUTO-exec sequence
Message-ID: <1772@brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk>
Date: 12 Apr 88 08:45:45 GMT
References: <80@ucsvc.dn.mu.oz> <1490@water.waterloo.edu> <4283@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth)
Organization: Computer Science, Heriot-Watt U., Scotland
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In article <4283@cup.portal.com> Jinfu@cup.portal.com writes:
>
>RE: auto execute order
>
>From my experience, the order of programs in auto folder being
>executed are the modified time of each program. The 'oldest'
>one runs first and the 'youngest' one last. A simple experiment
>can prove this:
>

The execution sequence is determined by the order in which the directory
entries actually appear on the disk. This is usually the order in which you
put them in the freshly created folder but the dates have no effect. I posted
A Disk Toolbox to the moderator about a week ago which allows you to change
the sequence by swapping entries with eachother to get them in the order you
want.

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