Say it ain't so regarding "Save" command!

[Mark Wieder]

Mark-

Monday, August 1, 2005, 10:26:52 AM, you wrote:

>         As far as the saving issue, I admit that it threw me for a loop
> because I am used to programs that save their own data.  In fact, 
> HyperCard saved automatically whenever there was a change.  I was 

The reason HyperCard could get away with this is that the Mac OS
(pre-OSX) allowed applications to modify themselves. Since it's the
only one of the supported rev platforms to allow this (Windows, OSX,
and linux don't) it was decided to disallow this behavior in the Mac
OS as well in order to avoid nasty cross-platform surprises.

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-Mark Wieder
 mwieder at ahsoftware.net