>>>So just use the PROGWORK and SORTWORK config lines, since they have always supported paths.
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>>Hi Ed,
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>>So has TMPFILES, just wasn't documented.
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>At least as recently(?) as FPW 2.6, while you could specify a path for TMPFILES, it got ignored and used the CWD for the drive assigned at startup. This changed either with VFP 3.0b or VFP5, I forget which.

I've been using it since FPD 2.0 and never seen it ignored. There may be a syntax problem, however. I use TMPFILES=C:\SOMEDIR\. It may be that the trailing backslash is required. Hang tight, I'll check.