Re: [MiNT] SV: [Atari-coldfire] FreeMiNT 1.18.0

[Peter Slegg <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk>]

On Fri, 22 Mar 2013 16:00:18 , Jo Even Skarstein <joska@online.no> wrote:
> > From: Pierre Ton-That [ptonthat@club-internet.fr]
> > Sent: 2013-03-22 04:15:21 CET
> > To: atari-coldfire@lists.lnxnt.org
> > Subject: Re: [Atari-coldfire] FreeMiNT 1.18.0
> >
> > - The old MiNT could tolerate a launch of LDG.PRG in the AUTO folder.
> > Now it can be launched with an exec line in the mint.cnf. My night is
> > lost to understand that.
>
> Please check the running order in the auto-folder. Maybe it has been
> changed when you copied the new mint.prg to c:\auto, and you are now running ldg.prg *before* MiNT.
>
> The running order can be sorted with Sboot.
>


Everyone probably knows this about AUTO folders but this is my
experience with Thing.

1. If you copy a file into the folder with the same name as a current
   file, then the file is over-written but crucially the running order does
   not change.

   This useful when changing the mint kernel. As long as the new file has
   the same name as the old one, the running order will remain unchanged.

2. If I want to change the running order of prg file number 10 to (say) position 5:

     - create a new folder, AUTO-1 for instance
     - display the AUTO folder unsorted
     - copy files 1 to 4 to the new folder
     - copy file 10 to the new folder, making it the 5th file in the new order
     - copy the remaining files (minus file 10) to the new folder
     - rename the folders and it should work...

Regards,

Peter