On Sun, 2 Dec 2001 15:54:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gordon Barnard) opined: > On 2 Dec 2001 07:44:07 GMT, Stan Goodman wrote: > > >This is nonsense. I have been using OS/2 since v2.0, and never had to > >do that. Although I don't even remember when was the last time I > >installed to a clean partition, it is a fact that ALL of the files in > >the TEMP directory bore dates between 28 October 2001 and 1 December > >2001. > > Interesting - I just checked the same directory and found no files at all, and I've >been > using Mozilla for the same period. > > Do you have perhaps some setting directing files there? > > Cheers, Gordon
Of course. TCP/IP installation put a line in CONFIG.SYS pointing to a place where its temporary files should be placed; evidently, since you looked there, you have such a line too. To the best of my knowledge, Mozilla does not have a place to specify such a pointer -- I have searched. perhaps not thoroughly enough, without finding one. Evidently, by default Mozilla uses the TCP/IP pointer, but at least at the time I examind the directory, no other program was using the stash. Why my Mozilla has been putting files there and yours hasn't is something I am not able to answer. I do not think it is terrible to put files there, since that is why the pointer and the directory exist. But, having used the directory for its appointed purpose, Mozilla (even as a Beta) ought to be sufficiently well behaved to clean up its mess when it is done. Or the developers, being non-Beta humans, ought to have had the grace to note in a readme file that users should check the directory from time to time, lest they run out of disk space; or that they empty the directory at boot time, since anything there that has survived a shutdown and boot has outlived its usefulness; or that the TMP directory should be placed on a virtual drive, so that it is moved into Limbo at shutdown, for the same reason. Such a warning would not have required a great deal of programming acumen. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel To send me email, please note that email addressed to "SPAM-FOILER" will not reach me, and will not be read. Please replace "SPAM-FOILER" with "stan".
