Saving a standalone

[Shari]

>Recently, Simon Lord wrote:
>
>>  Is it possible to have a standalone make changes to itself and
>>  actually save those changes?
>
>Nope.  You can only edit/save (non-standalone) stacks.  You can get close to
>what you ask by keeping the bulk of your scripts in a stack and using a
>small standalone engine to run the stack -- changes are save by the engine
>to the stack.
>


Doesn't that defeat the purpose of using a standalone?  Anything in 
the stack, can't it be opened etc. by anyone with Metacard?  The 
purpose of using a standalone besides convenience, is to protect the 
data, scripts, imports, etc. from anyone with prying eyes.  Yes you 
can script some protective things into a stack, but the whole purpose 
of having a standalone is for the extra protection it offers.

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