Put a stack into a variable?

[Richard Gaskin]

I'd like to put a stack into a variable, but without reading the stack 
file from disk.

Is there a way to do this?

I'm considering a scenario in which we have a standalone with the 
securityPermissions all turned off except "network".  At that point we 
have a app more secure than any browser.  So far so good:  we can 
download and run any stack with complete safety for the local system.

In that environment I'd like to be able to let the user modify the 
stacks, and save those back to the server.

I have the POST worked out with encryption and all that, so that much is 
good - for data within the stack, but not the stack itself.

It would be very convenient in this scenario if I could somehow get the 
data that comprises the stack from memory and put it into a variable to 
send back to the server.

Stephen Barncard has done some experiments with the copy command, but 
I'm unable to find a way to obtain the binary date from the clipboard 
contents when they contain LC objects.  Also, it would be nice to be 
able to also get any substacks, but the copy command only copies the 
stack itself.

Ideally what I'd have is the same as we get from doing this:

   put url tPathToSomeRemoteStack into tVar
   go stack tVar

At that point, tVar contains the stack data - substacks and all, just as 
if it were read from disk.

So now the trick is to find a way to get that from the current copy of 
the stack file in memory - any ideas?

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