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From: unpowell@csvax.liv.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: AUTO-exec sequence
Message-ID: <543@csvax.liv.ac.uk>
Date: 19 Apr 88 17:31:44 GMT
References: <80@ucsvc.dn.mu.oz>
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Organisation: Computer Science CSVAX (VAX1), Liverpool University


In article <80@ucsvc.dn.mu.oz>, u6408954@ucsvc.dn.mu.oz (Kel Raywood) writes:
> Does anyone know how to set the sequence in which programs are executed in
> the AUTO folder on the boot disk?
> 		Kel Raywood,  School of Physics, U. of Melbourne, Australia

	Yes. With a little thought.
	When a folder is created (or all files in it are deleted) all filename
slots in the directory are free.
	When a file is written the next available slot is used for the
necessary file information. e.g. if you write three files into an empty
directory, the first three filename slots will be used up, if you then deleted
file two (i.e. the middle file) then there will be a free filename slot
between the first and third files written, if you now write another file
onto this disk it will use the next free filename slot i.e. the one between
the first and third files.
	The sequence of execution is the order of the filename slots on the
disk. The only way to set this (without using a sector editor) is to copy
all files in the auto folder into ramdisk and then delete them from the
original disk. Then copy them back into the auto folder in the sequence
you wish them to be executed. The first file written back into the auto
folder will then be the first file executed, the second file written back
will be the second file executed etc. It's a messy process, but it works.
The sorting of the filenames by the desktop can be very counter-productive
at times.

	Mark Powell

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