<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Thanks for the information, but I am going to keep posting to the squeak-dev list.....<DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Oct 24, 2005, at 3:24 AM, Lic. Edgar J. De Cleene wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <FONT size="2"><FONT face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0px">untz puso en su mail :<BR> <BR> </SPAN></FONT></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><FONT size="2"><FONT face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0px">Thanks for all the helpful information, gentlemen...<BR> <BR> On Mac OS X Tiger, the equivalent of win32 executable (.exe) is .app, therefore the Squeak 3.8.6Beta6.app is the virtual machine. <BR> <BR> Ok, I got the hang of it now... Now what are the .pr files for and how does one use them instead of .st files and .image files?<BR> <BR> Do people pause / resume there work in Smalltalk loading the .pr files or the .image files or the .st files (it does seem that the .st files only contain one small source listing)....<BR> <BR> Many, many thanks!<BR> <BR> Kindest regards,<BR> <BR> Unnsse<BR> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT size="2"><FONT face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0px"><BR> We have a beginners group <A href="http://ar.groups.yahoo.com/group/squeakRos/.">http://ar.groups.yahoo.com/group/squeakRos/.</A><BR> Begins as Spanish only and now have people of all world, could write in English, many beginners and some pros could answer you.<BR> The quick answer.<BR> In Mac OS X Tiger, you can have many directories with Squeak , several Vm, (I have 8 different in my Dock).<BR> All VM and SqueakXYZ.sources go to Application folder.<BR> All what you do or download from somewhere go to Squeaklets folder, and that folder is created automatic when you load or create the first .pr<BR> The .pr is a way for having a island of your particular world for sharing with others (or with others worlds of you)<BR> But if you know biology know what is very dangerous introduce foreign species in different habitat.<BR> That , in Squeak , means what not always you could move all your living objects in a different .image.<BR> No object created on 3.8 and newer could survive in older images.<BR> Not always old loved pets from 3.6 or earlier could live in new images. (Alice, MorphicWrappers, MathMorphs, many others).<BR> <BR> Waiting questions ...:=)<BR> <BR> <BR> Edgar</SPAN></FONT></FONT><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> <BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>