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>You can use the name generated by SYS(2015) "AS IS" for a temp file name. I do that myself all the time.
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Found this site: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dv_foxhelp/html/lngsyslp3rp___legal_file_name.asp which supports your suggestion. Thanks. (Can you tell I haven't had to deal with generating unique file names in a while? ;-))