On 27/9/01 6:04 pm, Andrew Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>> In addition to the benfits of separating the interface from the data that
>> Geoff pointed out, there's another aspect to this:  On Widows and UNIX,
>> running executables cannot ordinarily write to themselves.  For consistency,
>> it's my understanding that standalones made with any of the Revolution
>> engines follow the same rule:  if it's a standalone, it's read-only.
> 
> Certainly a running executable can't write to itself in RAM, but is it
> also impossible to write to the file on disk?

No - you can write to files, or open and save stacks (e.g. stored in a
"data" directory).

Regards,

Kevin

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