[fpc-pascal]Temporary file names under GO32

[Michael.VanCanneyt at Wisa.be]

On Sun, 25 Nov 2001, Nico Aragon wrote:

> Hola,
>
> >Has anyone ever written a function to get a temporary unique file name?
>
> In Windows there're GetTempFileName and GetTempFileName32.
>
> For Linux, a hint: I heard that Borland had used somebody else's
> algorithm to implement GUIDs. Implementation could be in FreeCLX.


Simply use the tmpnam function from libc:

Function tmpnam (s : pchar) : pchar;cdecl;external 'c';

s may point to a buffer in which the filename is be copied;

Michael.