DAT file compilation

[Roger Upole]

On Windows NTFS file systems, you can add data to a file using named streams.
The extra streams aren't visible from Explorer so the average end-user won't
even know they're there.

        Roger


"Jay" <jaysherby at gmail.com> wrote in message news:1159576888.862008.286980 at m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com...
> 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
>>
>>
>> --
>> James Stroud
>> UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics
>> Box 951570
>> Los Angeles, CA 90095
>>
>> http://www.jamesstroud.com/
> 




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