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From: dac@ukc.ac.uk (David Clear)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Screen idlers
Message-ID: <3007@gos.ukc.ac.uk>
Date: 16 May 89 12:48:03 GMT
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Reply-To: dac@ukc.ac.uk (David Clear)
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In article <8905160147.AA16203@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> RIDDCJ@KIRK.ASTON.AC.UK writes:
>
>  A sidenote: I have been trying to figure out the order of execution in the
>Auto folder.  It is nothing at all to do with the way the desktop files are
>sorted (Name, Date, Size, Type), and doesn't *appear* to be anything logical.

I think the programs in the AUTO folder are executed in the order that
they were written on the disk. Not the date stamp - the physical order.
I could be wrong, but that's how I've always seen it.

>  Keep on computing!

What else is there?

>    Chris

Dave.

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