DAT file compilation

[Jay]

That cgi idea is really cool, but I don't have any web space to host
the files.  Plus the bandwidth required would be deadly.  I think I'll
just have to stick to the zip file idea.  The problem with the
read-only is that this program is aimed at a Windows audience.

James Stroud wrote:
> Jay wrote:
> > That's one solution, but I'd rather a file format the end-user can't
> > easily mess around with.
>
> Require the program to be installed as root and installation to be in a
> read-only directory--or serve the resources to your program from a cgi
> script somewhere, only to be downloaded when needed. This way, the user
> would at least have to reverse engineer your program to see where the
> resources were coming from so they could plug the appropriate query in
> their web browser.
>
> James
>
>
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> James Stroud
> UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics
> Box 951570
> Los Angeles, CA 90095
> 
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