John,

> Here's a variation of your idea that might work if the virus scanners
> don't compain:
> 
>   make the last four bytes of the file specify the offset of the start
>   of the image (i.e. the index of the first byte after the executable).

This sounds like a very good idea! It would not need any modification to
the Squeak side - just embedding the image in the executable would be
enough. Well, I'm tempted to try it right now ;-)

Andreas
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