>>>As a matter of fact, I got into some trouble by testing this. I set TMPFILES to D: and forgot to change it back. This was in FPW 2.6. All of a sudden I got that I/O problem with users with a CD as D: and no CD in it.
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I was sure it was different in FP2.x because I dropped using trailing backslash with VFP. OTOH I totally agree :).
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>I think that the problem is that the docs for TMPFILES only mention drive. I was too stupid to realize that it didn't mean directory also and always included it.< g >
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>Anyway, I just did the same thing with FPW 2.6 and got the same results that I got in VFP 6.0. So...
George/Cetin:
In a carryover from the old FPDOS days (which didn't support a path in the beginning), I always created a SUBSTituted drive reference in AUTOEXEC.BAT and used that. That still works even in VFP6.
