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From: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: dir | more
Message-ID: <7190@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM>
Date: 27 Mar 90 17:27:52 GMT
References: <2219@orbit.cts.com> <1461@polari.UUCP>
Reply-To: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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In article <1461@polari.UUCP> georgf@.UUCP (George Forsman) writes:
[pipe temporary files appear in the rood directory of the current drive]
> 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.

This problem doesn't exist with 4DOS, which uses the environment variable.
4DOS seems to fix just about everybody's complaints about command.com
(except for those people who are unsatisfied with anything but UNIX)
and at $35 ($50 with manual and "next upgrade") is a steal!
Tom Almy
toma@tekgvs.labs.tek.com
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