Re: CONFIRMED: ARACHNE is destructive!

[Pete]

On Sun, 20 Aug 2000 08:12:16 +0000, Steven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I agree with Michael.  It's stupid, Stupid, STUPID !!!
> C:\DOS is the most important directory on the whole
> system.  It is extremely dangerous to tell programs
> to use it for writing/deleting temporary files.
<snip>
> That is why you shouldn't have TEMP
> pointing at C:\DOS.  You never know when you will
> run into a program that wipes the TEMP directory.
> There are probably dozens of them out there.

> Cheers,
> Steven

while using W98 and its sometimes forgetful progs, I modified
cookiecentral's CLEAR.BAT to wipe the TEMP with DELTREE /Y. I installed
many progs and several would have, by default, used DOS' directory for
TEMP. It's not so unusual, IMHO...

 
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