Windows temp directory details (Java)

Question

I\'m writing a program that needs a generic temp folder. I\'m trying to find details about the Windows Temp folders. There are two paths that I know about -

Answer 1

It sounds like you have two programs that need to share temp files and one definitely doesn't want spaces in the path name. Probably the easiest thing to do is:

1. set the TMP and TEMP variable to a common directory
2. launch each application (from this modified environment) - which should pick up the temp variable

So at the command prompt you could do this:

1. set TMP=c:\mytemp
2. set TEMP=c:\mytemp
3. java -cp x;y;z my.application.Entry
4. run other application (hopefully it also reads the environment for temp/tmp)

Hope that helps.