I think you are right here. I was already wondering, when I wrote you.
BTW, what do you think would GetTempPath return in this case (the case that environment variable TEMP doesn't exist)?
Hilmar.
>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)
>>>
>>
>>How about:
>>
>>
>>? getenv("temp")
>>>>
>>Hilmar.
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