PF>
  >  jl> - how the info written in the "Environment" page
  >  jl> should be saved?
  >
  > Hmmm;  I'd say in an EA attached to the exe -- that way,
  > when the exe is erased, the env data goes with it.
PF>

  No.

  The environment information is part of the program object itself, and
  not necessarily attached to any one executable.  You can, after all,
  *change* which executable is invoked when the object is opened by
  altering the program name field in the first page.  As such, the
  environment information should be stored in the same place that all of
  the other object data are saved.

  The WPObject class provides methods that save and restore data to and
  from an unspecified persistent store.  WPObject is an abstract base
  class in this respect, since these methods are actually implemented by
  the immediately derived classes.  WPFileSystem saves information to
  honest-to-goodness files; WPAbstract saves information to INI files;
  and WPTransient has just dummy functions for the persistency methods,
  since transient objects are not persistent.

  What each derived class is expected to do is to override wpSaveState
  and wpRestoreState to save and restore any data specific to the
  derived class (using wpSaveData, wpRestoreString, and so forth), and
  to call the base class methods so that the data in the base class(es)
  are saved as well.

  The point being that there is a supplied means for saving the data for
  an object to persistent store, and you should use it unless you have a
  *very* good reason not to.

  One reason to do so (in addition to the simple "because that's what
  you *should* do") is that were someone to come along and re-implement
  the persistency methods for WPProgram so that they overrode those
  supplied by WPAbstract (your proposed WPProgramWithEnvironment class
  is derived from WPProgram, which is in turn derived from WPAbstract),
  all instances of your class would save their data to and from the new
  storage system without any intervention on your part.

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