Thanks Chris. That seems to cover everything I wanted to know about it.

On Sat, Jul 8, 2017 at 3:32 PM, chris burke <[email protected]> wrote:

> In Jqt, open or create a new script. Make some changes and run it. Repeat a
> few times. Then use menu Script|Snapshots to view the change log, or
> restore an earlier version.
>
> The wiki docs for this have been updated, see
> code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Guides/Qt_IDE/Snapshots.
>
> On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 7:18 PM, Ian Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Inside an Apple Xcode project, I am managing a cut-down J805 installation
> > which gets embedded in the resulting app. The app (TABULA) is nearing the
> > beta-test stage and I must attend to questions of security. Such as: its
> > capacity for harboring concealed trojans.
> >
> >
> > Xcode has discovered J code I didn't know existed in a folder:
> > J64-805-user/snap/
> >
> > This folder seems to be created at installation time of J64-805 itself,
> and
> > my mini J installation has inherited it. It is moderately large (88KB),
> but
> > not as large as /Applications/j64-805/addons (36.4 MB).
> >
> >
> > When I open it in osx Finder, it pretends to be empty. But Xcode/Find
> makes
> > its contents perfectly visible. More to the point, Xcode allows me to
> edit
> > this J code -- and the edit persists across finds.
> >
> >
> > I recognise some of the contents as J source code I myself have written,
> > maybe out-of-date code.
> >
> >
> > ++ Can I safely delete J64-805-user/snap/ from my Xcode project folder?
> > What, if anything, will fall over as a result? Will J64-805-user/snap/
> get
> > re-created inside the distributed app? Maybe even restored?
> >
> >
> > ++ Can the J code inside J64-805-user/snap/ conceivably be executed? I
> > would like to be reassured it never can.
> >
> >
> > I have searched http://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/ for the word "snap" but
> > the
> > results cast no light on the matter for me.
> >
> >
> > I can take a shrewd guess at what /snap/ is intended to do. But to guess
> is
> > not to know. Can anyone help, please?
> >
> >
> > Ian Clark
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