On 22/02/17 21:00, James Richters wrote:
I suppose a virus scanner could access it, I didn't think of that. I guess I should have said no other program intentionally access the file. It's just a way for me to store some variables and get them back, it serves no other purpose.
A virus scanner might disagree. .pax is a known type which might contain an archive hence a whole lot of nasty stuff, and it probably isn't wise to use it casually... call it .txt or use the standard .ini format.
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