Looking For Suggestions

[Yates, Glen]

> Try this low tech solution:
> 
> on openstack
>   open file "C:/program1.txt" for write
>   if the result is not empty then quit metacard
> end openstack
> 
> on closestack
>   close file "C:/program1.txt"
> end closestack

Yes, but don't hard code the path like this, or it will fail on about 90% of
the platforms that Metacard runs on, as that path will not exist.

For windows and mac, I would suggest using the specialFolderPath(Temporary)
function to get a path to a system specific temp directory. Also, this won't
pollute the root level of your users hard drive - no user likes that (at
least I don't).

On unix, I am not aware of an elegant solution, so you may be forced to hard
code a path, in which case a better path to try would be
"/var/tmp/yourprogramname.txt"

-Glen Yates