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- From: zobkiw@triplesoft.com (Joe Zobkiw)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: mac INIT loading order
- Date: Tue, 09 Apr 1996 21:33:11 -0400
- Organization: TripleSoft Inc.
- Message-ID: <zobkiw-0904962133110001@beethoven.triplesoft.com>
- References: <schiltz-0104962111000001@reqd-010.ucdavis.edu> <4ke582$rua@epsilon.qmw.ac.uk>
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- In article <4ke582$rua@epsilon.qmw.ac.uk>, jeremyr@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Jeremy
- Roussak) wrote:
-
- >In article <schiltz-0104962111000001@reqd-010.ucdavis.edu>
- >schiltz@cs.ucdavis.edu (Michael Schiltz) writes:
- >
- >> how can you control the order in which an INIT loads. I want to have my
- >> INIT load ASAP. any ideas?
- >
- >Put a null (or two) at the start of the name. INITs load in
- >alphabetical order. Extensions load first, then control panels, then
- >items in the System Folder itself (under system 7).
-
- No! I believe there is a problem with AppleShare/Personal File Sharing
- with files that contain/start with null characters. I had to change this
- behaviour in a control panel I wrote once. Jim Luther (JumpLong@aol.com)
- may have a comment on this since I believe he is the one who told me about
- it.
-
- Just use spaces. Printable characters are always safe...except periods of
- course :)
-
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