Saving data in List Magic tables

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Thu Aug 5 11:00:49 EDT 2010


charles61 wrote:

 > Regarding the .Rev extension, I had used the extension of .dat for
 > a previous app, which consisted of only 8 cards. This was to make
 > it harder for someone to try to open the app. The .dat extension
 > worked great.  But I was not successfully in using the .dat extension
 > with my current project, which consists of 71 cards plus 18
 > customized dialogs. I got standalone errors in the exec recognizing
 > the app stack.

FWIW I use ".dat" often and it seems to work as well as any other file 
name extension.

If the standalone has trouble opening the file there must be something 
else at play beyond the file name.

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