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From: raymond@math.berkeley.edu (Raymond Chen)
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Subject: Re: Writing a .exe
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Date: 16 Jan 90 17:44:50 GMT
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In-reply-to: jmv@sppy00.UUCP (Jim Vickroy)

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.
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 raymond@math.berkeley.edu         mathematician by training, hacker by choice