temporary-directory

Function

Package: system

Arguments:

Returns the pathname of the temporary directory used by the current running Lisp for writing temporary files. This directory is chosen according to the following algroithms.

On UNIX: #p"/tmp/".

On Windows: the first of the following to be a valid directory is used:

• the value of the environment variable TEMP,
• the value of the environment variable TMP,
• [current-drive]:\tmp,
• C:\ (the last presumably always exists).

The temporary directory used by a running Lisp cannot be changed. This function does not work with setf. It is informational only.

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Created 2000.10.5.