Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Deployment:
Startup Command and Parameter Reference

Temporary Directory (-T)

Use Temporary Directory (-T) to specify a directory for temporary files.

Operating system and syntax	UNIX Windows	-T dirname
Use with	Maximum value	Minimum value	Single-user default	Multi-user default
Client Session	–	–	Working directory	Working directory

dirname

The directory in which to create temporary files.

If you do not use this parameter, Progress puts these temporary files in the current working directory. On UNIX and Windows, these filenames begin with a prefix of lbi, dbi, pge, srt, or trp, and end with the process ID of the user’s OpenEdge session.

Note: Access the -T parameter using the SESSION:TEMP-DIR attribute. This attribute is read-only.

The following table shows descriptions of these prefixes:

Temp file	Usage
LBI	Local before-image (subtransaction undo).
DBI	Store temporary tables.
PGE	Edit buffer contents.
SRT	Temporary sort space; session compile storage.
TRP	Store Data Dictionary changes until they are saved.

On UNIX, Progress names these files uniquely for each user to avoid filename conflicts. Furthermore, Progress stores these files as “unlinked” with no visible name in the UNIX file system (unless you use Save Temp Files (-t).

In Windows, if two or more users share the same working directory and there is a conflict of temporary files, the following message appears:

Unable to open or create filename, error 3