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Re: mac INIT loading order

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From: Joe Zobkiw
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 01:33
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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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