Andrus, I think the 'Visual Foxpro Beta' category is the best place for this 'bug'. The vfpteam scans that category currently with extra attention.
>VFP 9 help about SYS(2023) says:
>SYS(2023) uses the Windows API GetTempPath to search for the path
>containing the temporary files.
>
>
DECLARE INTEGER GetTempPath IN "kernel32" ;
> LONG nBufferLength, STRING lpBuffer
>LOCAL lnBufferLength, lnReturn
>lnBufferLength = 512
>lcBuffer = REPLICATE( " ", lnBufferLength )
>lnReturn = GetTempPath( lnBufferLength, @lcBuffer )
>* Strip the null delimiter before returning the value
>MESSAGEBOX( 'GetTempPath: '+ STRTRAN( TRIM( lcBuffer ), CHR(0), '' ) + CHR(13) + ;
> 'SYS(2023): '+SYS(2023) )
>
>Produces different results:
>
>GetTempPath: C:\WIND98\TEMP\
>SYS(2023): C:\DOCUME~1\ANDRUS\LOCALS~1\TEMP
>
>Why?
>In VFP 7 results are the same.
>
>My VFP 7 and 9 applications use SYS(2023) directory to communicate and this causes my code to fail. How to fix this?
Groet,
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