"compile" vs. "tokenize" (was Re: Password Problem)

[Mike Schwartz-PC Support & Services]

> | Well, to be "buzzword compliant", I would say that "filePro compiles to
> | a bytecode for the filePro Virtual Machine".
> |
> | Basically, it gets compiled to machine code.  It's just that the machine
> | that it compiles for is not the physical machine that you're running.
> 
> So: in the context of filePro, what does "tokenize" mean?
> 
> JP

	I always thought that if ABE was *not* set to ASCII, then when you
saved a .PRC, it "tokenized" it and saved it as a non-human readable token
form.  So, like you, I've always been puzzled that quickstart tables were
named .tok, when they were some other kind of compiled code.