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Startup Command and Parameter
Reference


Temporary Directory (-T)

Operating 
System
and
Syntax 
UNIX
Windows 
-T dirname 
Use
With 
Maximum
Value 
Minimum
Value 
Single-user
Default 
Multi-user
Default 
CS
 
 
Working directory
Working directory

dirname

The directory in which to create temporary files.

Use Temporary Directory (-T) to specify a directory for temporary files. If you do not use this parameter, Progress puts these temporary files in the current working directory. On UNIX and Windows, these filenames begin with a prefix of lbi, dbi, pge, srt, or trp, and end with the process ID of the user’s Progress session.

NOTE: Access the -T parameter using the SESSION:TEMP-DIR attribute. This attribute is read-only.

The following table shows descriptions of these prefixes:

Temp File
Usage
LBI
Local before-image (subtransaction undo)
DBI
Store temporary tables
PGE
Edit buffer contents
SRT
Temporary sort space; session compile storage
TRP
Store Data Dictionary changes until they are saved

On UNIX, Progress names these files uniquely for each user to avoid filename conflicts. Furthermore, Progress stores these files as “unlinked” with no visible name in the UNIX file system (unless you use Save Temp Files (-t).

On Windows, if two or more users share the same working directory and there is a conflict of temporary files, the following message appears:

Unable to open or create filename, error 3 


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