On 2/1/01 2:50 PM, "John Delacour" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 12:10 pm -0800 1/2/01, Todd Richmond wrote:
>
> | What's the best way to do temporary file creation? BioPerl seems to have
> | chosen File::Temp, which requires File::Spec, which requires Errno.pm. The
> | process fails at the end because 'archname' is not defined for MacOS.
>
> I do
>
> $tempdir = $ENV{TMPDIR};
> mkdir $tempdir, 0; #creates if necessary
> $fout = "$tempdir" . "temp.txt";
> open FOUT, ">$fout";
>
That's a bit simplistic. You need a solution that will create as many unique
tempfiles as you need (with some checking to make sure that there's enough
space, etc.). File::Temp would be perfect if it ran under MacOS.
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