Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
weird because what then is the purpose of that variable
But if there is no such variable, what's the point of looking for its purpose? :-) I suppose that on Unix, functions like mkstemp have to be preferred for truly temporary directories.
sure, but it depends on tmp being cleaned up too; afaik /tmp and c:/temp are only cleaned up periodically e.g. when one runs out of space so it's a kind of indication of 'may be cleaned up' anyhow, it makes even more sense on templess systems to set the texmfcache var (what i actually dislike is all this ~/.crap stuff which apart from not being that readable also give a fuzzy indication .. temp? hidden? weird? app-only?) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------