[comp.sys.atari.st.tech] AUTO folder order

daroloson@watmath.waterloo.edu (Dani A. Roloson) (10/19/90)

Has anyone compiled a list of what should come before what in an auto folder?

There are probably too many pd/shareware items but what about the Atari and
commercial items?

I currently have FOLDER100, UIS III, NEODESK 3 (STARTGEM, I assume must always
go last), QUICK ST II, and AHDI but I may decide to put in a screen saver
and ram disk later on.

If a simple list is not reasonable, then maybe a set of rules would be better,
eg. 1. ProgA MUST run before ProgB, because ProgA sets an environment variable
	   that ProgB uses.
	2. ProgC should (not MUST) run before ProgD, because ProgC will make
	   ProgD run faster.

I am sure most manuals say "This program MUST be first in the AUTO folder."

Dani Roloson
KWEST
Kitchener-Waterloo Eight Sixteen Thirty-two Atari User Group