Disk Operations

Saving to disk. Because of security issues, saving information created in an applet to a local disk has long been taboo. The reasons are clear: you don't want to inadvertently download a rogue applet from the Web which subsequently trashes your local hard drive. This is another issue for which a solution has long been promised, and yet still is not readily available. It is doable, but it does require some fiddling. For authors, this issue is important, because