Hilmar and if the variable don't exist?
taken from the vfp help.
Two environment variables are always available: COMSPEC and PATH. You can create your own environment variables with the MS-DOS SET command

>>Mark I allways put tempory files on the windows temp directory you can get it with the followin code:
>>

>>DECLARE INTEGER GetTempPath in win32api Integer, String @
>>lctempdir= SPACE(200)
>>lnret = GetTempPath(LEN(lctempdir), @lctempdir)
>>

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>How about:
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>

>? getenv("temp")
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>Hilmar.