Re: temporary file location
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg54155] Re: temporary file location
- From: "John Jowett" <John.Jowett at cern.ch>
- Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 01:57:03 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: CERN
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"Erich Neuwirth" <erich.neuwirth at univie.ac.at> wrote in message news:cuhspq$9j8$1 at smc.vnet.net... > What is the best way of finding a directory where a temporary file can > be written? The methond should be as OS-independent as possible. > $TemporaryPrefix returns exactly that. It is only mentioned in the Help Browser under OpenTemporary. When I want to get the filename of a temporary file to work with I do something like tempFile = Close[OpenTemporary[]] or tempFile = Close[OpenTemporary[]]<>".m" John Jowett