Re: lynx-dev temporary files

[T.E.Dickey]

> > > JP> There are over 27000 zero length files called L6544-xxxxxTMP.TXT  
> > > JP> (where x is a digit) all with the same date stamp in my %TMP%  
> > > JP> directory.  
...
> I may well have used Ctrl-break to get out of LYNX when I couldn't get    
> it to stop attempting to make a connection... Even so, 27000 temporary 
> files is huge number to have been created in such a short time 
> frame. I'd suspect there is some code which is slightly amiss in the 
> handling of temporary files. 
>   
> > or perhaps it was built from (I forget - dev.13?) the version where 
> > I had broken the code that removes temporary files.  afaik dev.16 is 
> > ok though. 
>  
> Just in case LYNX does not delete temporary files, is there a filename 
> template I can use to identify them for deletion during my normal 
> daily housekeeping?  
Lynx uses three file-suffixes (.txt, .bin and .html (or .html)).  You could
do 
        erase l*.txt
        erase l*.bin
        erase l*.htm

since the 'l' is part of the prefix.
     
27000 is a lot of temporary files (sorry).

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Thomas E. Dickey
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