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to: Andrew Clegg
from: Ed Becker
date: 1995-04-23 06:32:12
subject: Unique Filenames

Hello Andrew!

Replying to a message of Andrew Clegg to Richard Hulme:

 AC> I don't know what compiler you're using, but EMX supports tempnam(),
 AC> tmpnam(), tempfile() and maketemp() which all provide different ways
 AC> of doing this. These are Unix system calls really, so I wouldn't be
 AC> all that surprised if not many compilers used them -- they are not
 AC> ANSI.

Hmmm...According to my C reference that came with the Cset compiler,
tempnam IS ANSI-C.  Error in the docs, perhaps?

Ed Becker
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