Date: Wed, 26 May 93 22:07:49 EDT
From: peprbv AT cfa0 DOT harvard DOT edu (Bob Babcock)
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: gcc and Novell

> Would that all developers could agree on the name of the environment variable
> that points to scratch storage.

I would recommend that a program should first look for an application-specific
environment variable, then TEMP or TMP.  That way, a user can control the
location if necessary.  For example, a small swap file might go to a RAM disk
for speed while a larger one would be directed to a hard disk.