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From: pvf@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM (Paul V. Fries)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Screen idlers
Message-ID: <628@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM>
Date: 18 May 89 21:30:19 GMT
References: <8905160147.AA16203@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <2832@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
Reply-To: pvf@diablo.3Com.com (Paul Fries)
Organization: 3COM Corp. , Mt. View. CA
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In article <2832@sbcs.sunysb.edu> lean@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Lean L. Loh) writes:
>	The order of execution in the AUTO folder is the order you copied/moved
>programs into the folder !!

I think this is close, but not quite true.  My experience says that the
actual order of the files in the folder is what matters.  To check the
order, I use an ls program with an "unsorted" option for the listing.

Anyway, the reason I say the quoted text is only close is that it is
possible that a program was deleted from the AUTO folder and a new
one subsequently added.  In this case, the program that was added later
will appear not at the end of the folder, but in the empty slot (which,
of course, could be at the end of the folder, but isn't necessarily).  So,
the order order you copied them is NOT necessarily the order in which
they are run.

Of course, using a truely vanilla ST, the only way to really be sure
of the order in the folder is to start with an empty folder.  In this
case, the insertion order == appearance order == the order of execution.

pvf