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From: georgf@polari.UUCP (George Forsman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: dir | more
Message-ID: <1461@polari.UUCP>
Date: 27 Mar 90 05:40:40 GMT
References: <2219@orbit.cts.com>
Reply-To: georgf@.UUCP (George Forsman)
Organization: PolarServ, Seattle WA
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In article <2219@orbit.cts.com> cheangkk@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Pitt Cheang) writes:
>Thanks for all the people who help me out with the question. However, one more
>question, why this only happending in the root directory instead of all
>subdirectory ?
> 
>Thanks Again.
>
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> ( Pitt Cheang )  Input, Input, Input, I want more input !!!
>
 The file only appear in the root because MS-DOS (specifically command.com)
uses the root directory for it's temporary files.  It would be nice if it
would use a TMP= environment variable for those files, but it does not.
  So what this comes down to is: no matter what subdirectory you are in, DOS
will use the ROOT directory of the current drive for the PIPE temporary files.
(This can be a problem when doing a DIR | SORT on a write-protected diskette).

 -George
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