Monday April 17 1995, Richard Hulme writes to All:

 RH> I have a feeling this has been asked/explained before, but anyway....

 RH> How can I create a file with a unique filename under OS/2?  I've looked
 RH> through the Control Programming reference (including a search on 'unique')
 RH> but I can't seem to find anything.

 RH> Is there an easy way to do this under OS/2, or do you have to write your
 RH> own algorithm to do it (I know it's not very hard, but if I don't have to,
 RH> I don't want to).

There's a REXX function!

Look at SysTempFileName under REXX Information in the Information folder.

There are also the standard C functions tempnam and tmpfile.

John

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