>My understanding is that Foxpro from at least as far back as FPW2.5 automatically sets tmpfiles to the windows temporary folder, which is local.
>Ask SYS(2023) and you usually get C:\WINDOWS\TEMP.
>I've not had any problems for years and I never specify Tmpfiles etc.

This is true unless you're CONFIG.FPW file specifies a different location. For example, on my machine the windows temporary folder is C:\WINDOWS\TEMP. However, SYS(2023) returns C:\FOXPRO because that's the name of the directory the TMPFILES setting indicates.