I just tried opening a copy of my rebol.exe,
named rebolblah.exe and within the rebol console
to delete %rebolblah.exe.
This produces a write access error.
As far as I know you can't modify a running executable.
That's on WindowsXP.

I can't remember if Win9x allows that. Anyone ?

Anton.

> The important thing to remember here is REBOL's sandbox security.
> We need to prevent ordinary users from having write access to the
> installed REBOL executable without prompting and the easiest way
> to do that is to put it in a different directory than their data.
> This will prevent downloaded scripts from replacing the executable
> with something nasty.

> Brian Hawley

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