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David James (dmj@langtong.demon.co.uk) wrote:
> I have a small problem with PCELM which I hope someone out there in
> developer land can help me with. 
> 
> We have a mail forwarding account to our school via a Demon node. I am
> trying to put PCElm to onto the school network so the kids can have
> cheap access to the internet.( Its LAN manager (using OS/2 v1.3
> [Microsoft!])beleive it or not). I've put all mailboxes in a single
> directory as usual and have written a short CPP program to act as a
> pretty front end (setting mailbox name, pasword authentication etc).
> 
> The problem is that as most of the network drives are read only
> (including the pcelm directory) - when pcelm fires up it checks to see
> if a file mailbox.txt exists - if not it creates it (this works fine).
> However, if this file does exist, it create a temporary file somewhere
> (I can find it) - it seems to do this on a read only drive, flashes up
> an error "tmpfile could not create..." and exits.
> 
> Can anyone with the PCElm source see where this occurs (setting TMP=...
> does not work either - its only used in MIME decompression). I would be
> very grateful - if it is fixable I will try to persuade the network
> manager to fork out the 50UKP for the source (this is alot of money for
> a school!)

These files are called PCELMXXX and created in the current
directory. There are four places where such a message is generated
in the source I have (actually it is 'tmpfile: could not
create...') It appears easy to add code to move the location if
that is what you need.

Are you using the original or Demon version of pcelm ?

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