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From: ok@quintus.uucp (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme
Subject: Re:  Scheme shellscripts
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Date: 27 Jul 88 21:58:30 GMT
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In article <12601@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> mwm@eris.berkeley.edu (Mike Meyer) writes:
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>Instead, try doing:
>	echo > /tmp/runscheme.$$ '(set! $* (quote ('$*')))'
>This creates a file in /tmp ...

Um, /tmp is for system programs.  /usr/tmp is the place for user temporary
files.  A number of system V utilities support the convention of trying to
create files in $TMPDIR.  It might be better, then, to do
	scheme_temp=${TMPDIR:-/usr/tmp}/runscheme.$$
	echo '(set! $* (quote ('$*')))' >$scheme_temp
You'll want to keep track of the file name so that you can delete it.