Stack's Name Being Changed When Used as CGI

[Richard Gaskin]

Gregory Lypny wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
>     I'm using a stack as a CGI.  It's my first try and has been  going 
> well so far.  I have the stack open when I'm writing CGI  handlers, and 
> I test those CGIs at the same time by submitting forms  to be processed 
> from my web browser.  Naturally, this leads to some  anomalies in that a 
> CGI handler may save the stack, but the results  are obviously not 
> visible to me in the instance of the stack I'm  actually editing.  When 
> I then try to save the stack I'm working on,  that is, after submitting 
> a test web form, I sometimes get an error  from Revolution telling me 
> that it can't access the stack in  question.  The reason for this 
> appears to be that a tilde has been  appended to the stack's name, so 
> that myCGIStack.rev has become  myCGIStack.rev~.  I just want to confirm 
> that this is the result of  me working on the open stack at the same 
> time that web calls are  being made and not some sort of bug.  Can 
> anyone confirm this?

The stackName~ file is a copy of your stack file made as an automatic 
backup during saving.  Normally it's deleted as soon as a save is safely 
completed, but if a save was interrupted the file is there as a backup 
(another great feature of stackfiles that make them great for storing 
user data).

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