Progress
Startup Command and Parameter
Reference
Temporary Directory (-T)
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:
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:
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