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From: woodside@ttidca.TTI.COM (George Woodside)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: /AUTO execution sequence
Message-ID: <4448@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Date: 17 May 89 12:08:49 GMT
Reply-To: woodside@ttidcb.tti.com (George Woodside)
Organization: Citicorp/TTI, Santa Monica
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In article <8905160147.AA16203@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> RIDDCJ@KIRK.ASTON.AC.UK writes:
...[edited]...
>  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.

This question pops up on a routine basis.

The order of execution is the physical order in which the files occur in the
directory of the disk. On a clean disk, with an empty directory, that would
be the order in which the files are placed into the directory (noting that
only files of extension .PRG are executed). If you delete a file, then that
directory entry becomes available, and the next file added to that directory
will occupy the physical location (and consequently the execution sequence) 
formerly held by the deleted entry. 

To precisely control the sequence of execution, remove all files from the
/AUTO folder, and replace them in the sequence you want them executed.

Note that if you are using some startup utility program to control your
startup sequence, then (once that utility gets executed), sequence
becomes controlled by that utility.
-- 
*George R. Woodside - Citicorp/TTI - Santa Monica, CA 
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