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THANKS BEK re Temp File Fix!



And congrats on such fast work!

T


At 11:40 AM 10/8/98 +1000, you wrote:
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>(gosh I'm fast!)
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>1.  To fix it so that different people can use ZZ at once:
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>Find the line that says
>my $TEMP_FILE = "/tmp/zigzag"; # Filename used for external editing
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>(it's up the top someplace)  and change it to this:
>my $TEMP_FILE = "/tmp/zigzag.$$"; # Filename used for external editing
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>IE: add a period and two dollar signs.
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>2.  Persistant files
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>Is this perhaps an old version?  Mine doesn't do this ...
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>Gossamer
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