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- From: knee@netcom.com (Mark Lanett)
- Subject: Re: Naming Convention for Named Objects?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.093356.14138@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <1992Nov13.184516.10985@e2big.mko.dec.com> <1992Nov15.120618.873@cmkrnl.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 09:33:56 GMT
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- >Microsoft should do something like this, and should publicize it well. (We
- >really don't need something comparable to the situation under DOS. (My DOS
- >machine has three different apps on it which ALL use the environment variable
- >TEMP to point to a scratch directory.... )
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- Wouldn't you *want* to only have to set one variable for that sort of thing?
- If they chose decent filenames, that would be great. Kind of like unix's /tmp.
- (I see your point, just a poor example).
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