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- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!hexnut!jenk
- From: jenk@microsoft.com (Jen Kilmer)
- Subject: Re: Normal MSDOS multitasking!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.061432.24198@microsoft.com>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 06:14:32 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <bern.724451246@kleopatra> <NDuwVB6w165w@cybrspc.UUCP>
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- In article <NDuwVB6w165w@cybrspc.UUCP> roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail) writes:
- >bern@Uni-Trier.DE (Jochen Bern) writes:
- >
- >Depends on your command processor. 4dos puts its tempfiles in a single,
- >known directory on your hard drive. Handy feature, that.
-
- Yup.
-
- Btw, MS-DOS 5 will also put its tempfiles in a single, known directory.
- Whichever one you set the temp environment variable to. By default,
-
- SET TEMP=C:\DOS
-
- >That also means the 'DIR | MORE' example wouldn't be obviously
- >successful in 4dos, because the tempfiles are likely to be in a
- >different directory.
-
- Same with 5.
-
- -jen
- not an ms-dos support person anymore, I just sound like one
-