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External Resources are LANSA objects just like any other, but with the exception that the LANSA Editor doesn't know how to edit them—as it has no idea of its contents—and LANSA programs don't know how to use them—the code will still be just referring to a file on disk. You do, however, want to register them in the Repository. This has two advantages: as a back up and to make it easier to correctly deploy them with your application.
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Register Multiple External Resources
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