Thanks for clarifying Rony, should I file a bug report?
@Jeremy
I was initially launching from C:\Users\po (my "home dir")
Not from C:\Users
But the problem is in the getTempFileName system function, not in anything I
wrote. Example is from a sample delivered with ooRexx.
Von meinem iPhone gesendet
> Am 02.10.2019 um 12:31 schrieb Rony G. Flatscher <rony.flatsc...@wu.ac.at>:
>
> Jeremy,
>
> it is a problem with "samples\makestring.rex".
>
> Running it on a Windows 7 machine yields:
>
> C:\Program Files (x86)\ooRexx\samples>makestring.rex
> Unable to create test file : C:\Users\ADMINI~1\AppData\Local\Temp\C:\Program
> Files (x86)\ooRexx\samples\tst_input.528
> So the user's temporary directory location gets concatenated with the fully
> qualified path to the temporary file.
>
> The Rexx code up to that point looks like (starting with line # 62 after the
> comments and the routine starting at line # 225):
>
> --creating temporary input and output file
>
> file_name_in = getTempFileName('tst_input.???')
> file_name_out = getTempFileName('tst_output.???')
> file_in = .stream~new(file_name_in)
> file_out = .stream~new(file_name_out)
>
> if file_in~open \= "READY:" then do
> say "Unable to create test file : " file_name_in
> exit
> end
>
> ... cut ...
>
> ::routine getTempFileName
> use strict arg template
>
> fileName = SysTempFileName(template)
> parse upper source os .
>
> -- Add code for other operating systems here if needed.
> select
> when os~abbrev(WIN) then do
> tempDir = value("TEMP", , "ENVIRONMENT")
> if tempDir == "" then tempDir = value("TMP", , "ENVIRONMENT")
> if tempDir == "" then leave -- Give up.
>
> if tempDir~right(1) \== '\' then tempDir = tempDir'\'
> fileName = tempDir || fileName
> end
> otherwise
> nop
> end
>
> return fileName
> SysTempFileName() returns a fully qualified path to the temporary file which
> gets appended to the temporary directory on Windows only.
>
> Removing the entire select statement (looks awkward anyway as only one
> WHEN-branch is there) solves the problem on Windows.
> ---rony
>
>> On 02.10.2019 11:59, Jeremy Nicoll wrote:
>>> On Tue, 1 Oct 2019, at 22:02, P.O. Jonsson wrote:
>>>
>>> Launching makestring.rex from the home directory (if that what it is
>>> called on Win) works
>> C:\Users
>>
>> isn't a home directory. Indeed it's not a usual place for a Windows user
>> to be at all. If a user is in that sort of place you'd expect them to be
>> looking at their own files eg at
>>
>> C:\Users\myusername
>>
>>
>>> But launching it from anywhere else fails:
>>>
>>> C:\>rexx makestring.rex
>>> Unable to create test file : C:\Users\po\AppData\Local\Temp\C:\tst_input.954
>> You've got two complete filenames concatenated there.
>>
>> The "C:\tst_input.954" part is not valid on the end of the earlier bit,
>> because ":"
>> is only valid as the second character of a filepath, immediately after a
>> disk
>> letter.
>
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