revlet works locally - fails on server

[Roger.E.Eller at sealedair.com]

>On 23.11.09 at 09:38 -0500 Roger.E.Eller at sealedair.com apparently wrote:
>>The files are in the same folder on the server. They were uploaded as
>>binary. There is no 'file' access in the stack script, but I do check for
>>and create a folder locally. Could that be the problem?
>>
>>on openStack
>>   if there is not a folder "C:/MyAppTemp" then
>>     create folder "C:/MyAppTemp"
>>   end if
>>end  openStack
>>
>>Kind regards,
>>
>>Roger Eller <roger.e.eller at sealedair.com>
>
Robert Brenstein <rjb at robelko.com> apparently replied:
> Such a code will work only if your server runs windows and your
> revlet has write access at the root level. It might be better to use
> one of the "magic" folders for a given OS.
>
> Robert

Why would the revlet be writing to the root level of the 'server'? From
what I've seen, scripts in stacks designed to read/write to a local C:/
drive still do so. Aren't revlets downloaded and executed locally rather
than on the server?

Roger Eller <roger.e.eller at sealedair.com>