Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!mcvax!unido!laura!mb From: mb@laura.UUCP (Matthias Bertram) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Hard Disk auto folder problem Message-ID: <426@laura.UUCP> Date: 7 Jul 88 13:16:35 GMT References: <8807021540.AA22916@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Reply-To: mb@laura.UUCP (Matthias Bertram) Organization: University of Dortmund, W-Germany Lines: 35 In article <8807021540.AA22916@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> wawers@DMZRZU71.BITNET writes: >Question : How do you prevent the auto folder programs > from beeing executed ? > > OR > > How do you make your ST execute the floppy disk auto > folder instead of the hard disk auto folder ? > > Theo Hi, out there, all the replies I read by now are about the second part, I think something else is much easier and more appropriate to Theo's specific problem. I recently saw a program called 'Loader', which has to be the first program in the auto-folder. It then shows you all programs in the autofolder and asks you which programs to execute. Afterwards it does the same with all accessories. It works very simple as follows: All programs selected to be executed are renamed to name.prg, the others to name.tos. As only *.prg files are executed in the auto-folder only the selected programs are executed after exiting the loader. With acessories it works the same way (renaming unselected accessories to name.acx). Unfortunately I don't know if this program is public domain, I can't access it at the 'mo. But it shouldn't be a big problem to write it yourself. Hope this helps you, Matthias