In article <················@lego.cs.brown.edu> ··@cs.brown.edu (rodrigo vanegas) writes:
>Is there some standard way of making temporary files? I miss the
>simplicity of /bin/sh's
> tempfile=/tmp/myprog$$
No, there's no standard function, like C's mktemp(). You can write
something using a loop that calls OPEN with :IF-EXISTS :ERROR, incrementing
a number in the file name.
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