>>We have an app that will be distributed in a stand-alone version on CD-ROM. The problem is that temp files are written by default to the startup directory. On CD-ROM, that would be the startup directory on the CD which is read-only of course. Instant crash.
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>>While we could just put "TMPFILES C:\" in CONFIG.FPW, this isn't a great solution. Some folks may have partitioned drives with C being a small partition with the operating system on it and D being the data partition.
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>>Is there any way to intelligently set TMPFILES? It would nice to be able to get the space available from all local drives and set TMPFILES to the drive with the most space.
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>>TIA
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>Can you use the GetEnv() function to find the DOS variable TEMP? Most systems running Windows have this variable set to their preferred drive, and you could use it. If the variable isn't set, perhaps you could ask the user with the LocFile() function and even save it in your user-login file for future use. I'm not sure about Win95 temp files, but if there isn't a default directory set up by Win95 there should be a way of setting one just as in Windows.
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>Barbara


Nope...doesn't work. You can't redirect temp files once Fox is running, which is what you'd need to do for your suggestion to work.

Craig