From: Barry Margolin
Subject: Re: temporary files in Common Lisp
Date: 
Message-ID: <2jmq15INN4mf@early-bird.think.com>
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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Barry Margolin
System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.

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