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From: bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.encore
Subject: tmpnam(3s), tmpfile(3s) under Umax?
Message-ID: <2779@buengc.BU.EDU>
Date: 5 May 89 10:28:38 GMT
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Reply-To: bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton)
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Some unix-based systems have functions in their C libraries, or stdio.h,
that provide access to temporary files within a program.  Unfortunately,
Umax 4.2 doesn't seem to.

As I am porting some programs I wrote on another system to this machine,
I would prefer to keep that code as close to the original as possible,
and maybe only add a #include to give the now-undefined functions an
identity.

Before I go wading into the turbid waters of unique-filename-generation
on my own, I'd like to know if anyone's done this on an Encore before.

				--Blair
				  "It's not a particularly tough
				   problem, just a bother."