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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
FoxPro 2.x
Title:
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00428441
Message ID:
00428743
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>>I have a FPD2.6 application that keeps putting the temporary files into the application directory on the server.
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>>Foxpro also runs from the server in a seperate directory, I have changed the CONFIG.FP to contain TMPFILES=C:\WINDOWS\TEMP but it isn't making any difference.
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>>Can anyone advise me on this, and if you suspect that the program is altering the location of Temp files, can you tell me which command to look for (I didn't write it).
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>The TMPFILES setting in CONFIG.FP only pays attention to the drive; you need to set paths using the SORTWORK, PROGWORK and related variables for FPD. I'd recommend using the DOS environment variable to point at the CONFIG.FP for the station; I remember FPDOS looking in some strange places to find a CONFIG file.

You mean FOXPROCFG for the environment variable. The TMPFILES setting has always paid attention to the directory indicated (at least as far back as FPD 2.5). It was just mis-documented.
George

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