At 1:30 AM +0100 on 11/18/99, M. Uli Kusterer wrote:
>>Enter the wonderful world of temp files :)
>
>Anthony,
>
> my thought exactly, though there will be problems if we wanted to merge a
>temp file's contents back into the standie. We might have to live w/o it,
>that is place a 'data' file next to the application that contains
>additional blocks. That is, we might need a feature to override blocks in
>one file with those from another. This shouldn't be much of a problem, but
>won't look that elegant.
Nope -- not true. Consider [for unix] something along the lines of:
check for existing temp file, create temp file [no temp races, please]
copy stack to temp file
use temp file
on quit:
exec copy-back-stack
NuCard is now no longer running; copy-back-stack is
copy back the temp file
exit
>
>>Which OS's are like this? I know Unices are not, as long as you have write
>>permission.
>
> I'm not sure exactly. Scott mentioned this problem as a reason why MC
>can't save changes to standalones on Mac; they wanted all versions to
>behave the same on all platforms. IMO he also counted unix among the
>platforms that didn't allow this, but I'm not sure.
You can do it on the Mac -- I think Scott's just scared of messing up and
destroying the executable, crashing the mac, and making the user unhappy.
