Posted by Marc on April 05, 2006 at 08:12:33:
In Reply to: Re: Frustrated posted by Barbara Brazil on April 05, 2006 at 07:33:16:
Barb: You may want to change the documentation for sysgen. Please see below. It says that the tmp directory should be sysgen'd as a type "L". Which is correct?
The $(catemp) directory
Certain features in Comet and CometAnywhere, such as HTML printers and text printers (available in Comet2000 Build 291 and above), create files in a temporary directory. The alias for this directory is $(catemp).
See the [Directories] section of the COSW.INI file for the exact path to the $(catemp) directory.
System aliases are created on the system running Comet (or CometAnywhere). For example, if you run a single-user Comet system or a CometAnywhere remote system, and load COSW from the C:\COMET directory, the $(catemp) directory is created on:
C:\COMET\CAFiles\catemp
If you load Comet a network drive, the temporary directory is created below the Windows “system” folder (C:\WINDOWS, C:\WINNT, etc.).
If the temporary directory does not exist, Comet creates it at start-up time. If this directory already exists, Comet clears it at start-up time (i.e., Comet erases all of the temporary files in this directory, erases the directory, and re-creates it).
When you exit from Comet, files remain in the temporary directory until the next time you start Comet, at which time the temporary directory is erased and created anew.
You do not need to configure the $(catemp) directory. Features such as HTML printers and text printers use this directory even if it is not configured.
However, if you want to access files in the temporary directory from your Comet applications, you can configure it. Here’s how:
[DIRECTORIES]
nn = L,$(CATEMP)
where:
nn is a directory number from 00 through 219
L guarantees that the temporary directory is local (unique) for each user
In addition to creating the temporary directory at start-up, Comet creates a QDIR file and assigns the directory a label of TMP. Your Comet applications can use the TMP directory the same as any other Comet directory is used. Just remember that files in this temporary directory are erased the next time you start your Comet node.
Note: If you are using the QMONITOR password security system, be sure to add the TMP directory to those passwords that need access to their local temporary directory.