L.D. Best wrote:
>
> I have TEMP set to r:\temp\ ... I even have TMP set to r:\temp\ ...
>
> So why do I find textarea.tmp and 4 or 5 other *.tmp files sitting on my
> HDD?
Very good question - and some have missed the point.
Michael has stated that he was trying to direct as much temporary file use as
possible to ramdisk via the "TEMP or ARACHNETEMP" variables. I think he also
said something about TEMP in connection with expire static and expire dynamic.
Actually, he has said a lot about a lot of things and I wish I had more of it
hardcopied !<G> There definitely was a big note on TEMP once that I can't find.
If it is more convenient for him to do cleanup if only a certain type of data
is in TEMP, then perhaps we should have a different TMP area to separate the
above mentioned files from the more permanent (and less accessed) stuff in
the main ARACHNE directory.
I just downloaded history.txt to check the references to "TEMP" and the post
that I vaguely recall wasn't in it.
As a side note, I did the download with 1.6b1 and it went very nicely until
time came to read the file offline. Just like Windows, Arachne did whatever
she wanted without any concern for what *I* wanted. I couldn't find the damn
downloaded file anywhere. Certainly not in the Download directory where any
reasonable person might expect it.
In actual fact, (and I suppose most of you know this) it was in Cache under a
totally obscure numbered name. Luckily, I remembered it was about 70 Kbytes.
That's one friendly way to handle a download. :-((
- Clarence Verge
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