temporary-directory

$Revision: 5.0.2.3 $

Function

Package: SYSTEM

Arguments: nil

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.

The general documentation description is in introduction.htm. The index is in index.htm.