Re: Temp folder question

From: AlanGLLoyd (alanglloyd_at_aol.com)
Date: 11/05/03 

Date: 05 Nov 2003 16:46:29 GMT

In article <8nrhqvop5iej9nu383oculfc6lb972lqhn@4ax.com>, Paul <paul@none.com>
writes:

>a) Is this the "correct" way to obtain the windows temp path on all
>versions of Windows, including W2K (NT not needed).:-
>

MSDN says of GetTempPath ...

"Windows 95/98: The GetTempPath function gets the temporary file path as
follows:

The path specified by the TMP environment variable.
The path specified by the TEMP environment variable, if TMP is not defined or
if TMP specifies a directory that does not exist.
The current directory, if both TMP and TEMP are not defined or specify
nonexistent directories.
 
Windows NT/2000: The GetTempPath function does not verify that the directory
specified by the TMP or TEMP environment variables exists. The function gets
the temporary file path as follows:

The path specified by the TMP environment variable.
The path specified by the TEMP environment variable, if TMP is not defined.
The Windows directory, if both TMP and TEMP are not defined. "

It returns the _path_, which includes the final backslash. OTOH if you use
PathAppend it takes care of the backslash between path and filename.

The note above re Win NT/2K is relevant and indicates that one should check
that the directory exists and/or do a ForceDirectory on the path.

Alan Lloyd
alanglloyd@aol.com

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