Re: Strange files...

["M.W. Poirier" poirmw@xxxxxxxx]

 I believe you Carl, but that is not what I see happening.
 As I said, the overflow files are visible in the btfonts
 directory, beneath XY4, when I am in the programme and
 look in that directory. After I exit the programme, and
 go to that same directory in DOS, the overflow files with
 the TMP ender are gone, and I have not taken any steps to
 delete them. I don't know how this is happening, since
 you say that that is impossible, and I believe you, but
 I also see what I see. Mind you, I am not complaining
 because the nice feature is that other *.TMP files, such
 as EMAIL.TMP survive. The only ones to go are the strange
 ones that look something like LMNOPQR.TMP, which I believe
 Robert called "overflow" files. These are precisely the
 ones I would delete, if they were not deleted, and I'd
 leave the EMAIL.TMP file, because this is the file that I
 usually want to send someone, and were it to be deleted
 with the rest of the TMP files, I'd have a problem.

 Maben

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On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 cld@xxxxxxxx wrote:

> Maben:
>
> You're losing me. I thought you were talking about .TMP files being deleted "when quitting the programme". As far as I know, XyWrite does not delete any .TMP files when the QUIT command is issued. All that happens is that any active swap file (.TMP file with arbitrary 8-char filename) is unlocked and thus becomes available for deletion. But it is not actually deleted.
>
> I don't understand what any of this has to do with Robert's DEL command in STARTUP.INT. That command, obviously, does not delete anything "when quitting the programme"; it executes when XyWrite is next restarted. Any .TMP files that exist immediately before you quit will continue to exist thereafter, unless and until they are deleted. There is no magic at work here.
>
> --
> Carl Distefano
> cld@xxxxxxxx
>
>
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: "M.W. Poirier" 
> >
> >  Carl:
> >
> >  What you say below is strange. While I've not had
> >  much experience with the two new lines Robert and
> >  you have suggested--I think I experimented with the
> >  programme four or five times since adding these lines
> >  to the STARTUP.INT file--in all of the cases where
> >  there was at least one file of the type XPTYZMQ.TMP
> >  in the c:\xy4\btfonts directory, that file has been
> >  deleted when I exit the programme. In fact, I veri-
> >  fied this twice by looking at the BTFONTS directory
> >  from within the programme and I saw the file, and then
> >  I went to the same directory from within DOS, the file was
> >  gone, but not EMAIL.TMP. And I certainly did not issue
> >  a delete *.TMP command from within DOS prior to looking.
> >  Hmmm? You say, if I understand you, that this cannot
> >  be happening? Is that right? Well, it seems to be
> >  happening with me. I just tried it again, and that is
> >  what is happening, but not to EMAIL.TMP, which is in
> >  the same directory.
> >
> >  Maben
> >
> > ----
> > On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, Carl Distefano wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Reply to note from "M.W. Poirier"  Mon, 09
> > > Jan 2006 01:17:57 -0400 (EDT)
> > >
> > > Maben:
> > >
> > > > It appears that not all *.TMP files created in the
> > > > c:\xy4\btfonts directory will be deleted when quitting the
> > > > programme
> > >
> > > None is deleted. Editor does not delete .TMP files before quitting.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Carl Distefano
> > > cld@xxxxxxxx
> > >
> > >
> >
>
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