ID Number: Q74747
5.00 5.10 6.00 6.00a 6.00ax | 5.10 6.00 6.00a
MS-DOS | OS/2
Summary:
Microsoft programming languages and the utilities that are included in
their packages use an environment variable, TMP. This operating-system
environment variable is typically set in either the CONFIG.SYS file or
the startup batch file (AUTOEXEC.BAT for MS-DOS or STARTUP.CMD for
OS/2), and is assigned to the drive and directory that is to be used
for temporary file storage.
While Microsoft development tools use the TMP system variable,
Microsoft applications, such as Microsoft Word and Microsoft Windows,
use a system variable, TEMP. The TEMP variable is also set to a drive
and directory that can be used by applications for temporary file
storage.
Microsoft has chosen to have programming languages and their utilities
use the TMP system variable and to have applications such as a word
processor use TEMP. The reason for this is that compilers and other
development tools generally use more temporary disk space, and
therefore, you may want to assign TMP to your hard disk. Applications
such as Microsoft Word generally use less temporary disk space, and
therefore, you can set TEMP equal to a small RAM drive.