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Re: the "Apps.AUTO" folder

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Chris Evans  wrote on 18 Sep:
> Are you meaning ADFS::4.$.Apps.AUTO ?

Yes.

> If yes on what OS version is the question for?

OS 4.39.  The AUTO directory has existed for as long as I can recall 
on my RiscPC and I *think* that until recently applications stored in 
it always launched automatically at boot-up without my needing to 
explicitly list them in "Configure > Boot > Run".


Philip Draper  wrote on 18 Sep:
> I certainly don't have such a folder in RO 6.20, so it must be
> something you set up yourself.

If I did, I didn't do it "from scratch".  I always thought it came 
with OS 4.39 -- in my logfile (of stuff I installed etc) I find 
references to $.apps.AUTO as far back as 2005.  Perhaps it had some 
script (or a line in some other script) to make the auto-launching 
happen, which perhaps I have lost in my tidying-up.

Or perhaps the $.Apps.AUTO idea came as part of some third-party 
utility.  If so, can anybody recall its name or where it might have 
come from?



Chris spotted that my original post was sent from OS 5.18.  My present 
grand project is to get the Iyonix back into active service on the 
network so I can use either machine for email (in particular when 
Mrs N is enthroned at the RiscPC).

I must have set up a directory $.Apps.AUTO on the Iyonix manually, 
presuming incorrectly that both branches of the OS understand it.

Anyway, I've always found the AUTO folder a useful place to stash apps 
that I want to be on the iconbar all the time and thus don't need to 
appear in the iconbar Apps folder.


-- 
Jim Nagel                        www.archivemag.co.uk
>> "from" address is genuine but will change.  website has current one.
   See you at Kenilworth?   http://mug.riscos.org/show12   July 7

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  Re: the "Apps.AUTO" folder Philip Draper <Philip@borehamh.demon.co.uk> - 2012-09-18 11:24 +0100
  Re: the "Apps.AUTO" folder Chris Johnson <chrisjohnson+news@spamcop.net> - 2012-09-18 10:58 +0100
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      Re: the "Apps.AUTO" folder John Sandford <lists@thesandfords.me.uk> - 2012-09-19 10:28 +0100
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          Re: the "Apps.AUTO" folder Jim Nagel <jimnewsm10d@abbeypress.co.uk> - 2012-09-20 02:04 +0100
            Re: the "Apps.AUTO" folder druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2012-09-21 20:23 +0100
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