Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: /tmp vs. /usr/tmp (System V) Message-ID: <4514@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Mon, 22-Oct-84 14:16:15 EDT Article-I.D.: utzoo.4514 Posted: Mon Oct 22 14:16:15 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 22-Oct-84 14:16:15 EDT References: <5279@brl-tgr.ARPA>, <528@wjh12.UUCP> <5323@brl-tgr.ARPA>, <634@druxp.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 10 > There is an undocumented flag in the System V sort(1) that allows you > to specify the directory where it creates its temp files. > Try "sort -T /new/temp/dir ...". I don't know if it exists in > other versions of UN*X, and I don't know why it's not documented. You're sure it's not documented? It *is* documented in V7! Talk about breaking the software, now USG is breaking the documentation... -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry