>>>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.
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>>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.
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>I was only concerned that people erroneously thought that it defaulted to the network drive or somewhere nasty and that they had to put an entry in Config.fpw

My experience has been that it will default to the startup directory if not specified. In other words, if the app starts on a network drive, and there isn't an entry for this setting it the tmp files are stored in the working directory. In this case, I believe that the documentation is correct.