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From: jona@iscp.Bellcore.COM (Jon Alperin)
Subject: Re: sprintf (again)
Message-ID: <1991Jun11.120529.18858@bellcore.bellcore.com>
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Reply-To: jona@iscp.Bellcore.COM (Jon Alperin)
Organization: Bell Communications Research (Bellcore)
References:  <9106120920.AA08552@fkrs1.phc.chalmers.se>
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 91 12:05:29 GMT

Try changing the xxxxx's to CAPITAL letters. They may be trying to create a temporary file using the mktemp() call, which replaces the 6 CAPITAL X's with the PID of the process and a unique alphabetic character.

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