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In article <schiltz-0104962111000001@reqd-010.ucdavis.edu>,
schiltz@cs.ucdavis.edu (Michael Schiltz) wrote:

<how can you control the order in which an INIT loads.  I want to have my
<INIT load ASAP.  any ideas?
<Thanks in advance,
<mike
<schiltz@cs.ucdavis.edu
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Extensions are loaded in a defined order.  Resources of type 'INIT' can be
found in files of type 'INIT' (System Extension), 'cdev' (Control Panel),
'RDEV' (Chooser Device), 'appe' (application extension), and 'scri'
(script system extensions).  In order to be loaded, the INIT resource must
be in one of these file types in one of several locations in the System
Folder.  

Under system 7 INITs are loaded first from the Extensions Folder in
alphabetical order.  INITs present in script system extension files
(filetype 'scri') load before INITs present in system extension files
(filetype 'INIT').  Next, any INITs in the Control Panels folder are
loaded in alphabetical order.  Any INITs present at the root level of the
System Folder are loaded after that.  This order of loading is important
if an extension is dependent on the presence of another extension.  For
example, if an INIT resource in an INIT file named 'SpeakAll' is dependent
on the presence of the 'Speech Manager' extension, it either needs to have
its name changed to something that sorts after 'Speech Manager' or it has
to be located in the Control Panels folder, since extensions in the
Control Panels folder load after extensions in the Extensions Folder. 


You can find more nifty info about inits in the INIT writing FAQ to be
found at the url mentioned below in my sig.

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Brian  Stern  {8-{)}                                 BeBox Hairy Guy                  Stern@metrowerks.com                          BrianS@pbcomputing.com
INIT Writing FAQ etc. at <ftp://ftp.pbcomputing.com//Guests/BrianS/>