raymond@math.berkeley.edu (Raymond Chen) (01/17/90)
In article <15144@well.UUCP> tsmith@well.UUCP (Timothy S. Smith) asks: >Is it possible to have a data area in the .exe file that can be >written at run-time? Is this a good idea in general? In article <660@sppy00.UUCP>, jmv@sppy00 (Jim Vickroy) gave two reasons not to do this, to which I'd like to add a third: 3. Strange things will happen if somebody puts it on a network and two people run it simultaneously. -- raymond@math.berkeley.edu mathematician by training, hacker by choice