[fpc-pascal] Temporary Filenames in GO32

Michael Van Canneyt michael at freepascal.org
Thu Oct 12 10:36:28 CEST 2006



On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Jason P Sage wrote:

> I read an old thread about how to make temporary filenames (unique filenames
> is what the topic was about) and I have written a simple unit that sort of
> does this without needing a second to elapse (or millisecond for that
> matter) to pass in order to get the next unique name. I have heard of a
> possible unit or routine that MAY be available to us FPC coders that does
> some sort of GUID algorithm. this would interest me. 

What is the problem with the systutils version of gettempfilename ?
On windows, this reverts to the OS call. On other platforms, an own
implementation is used.

Michael.



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