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note that user can control directory location even if default dir is used

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Skip Montanaro 2006-11-06 14:34:52 +00:00
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@ -86,7 +86,12 @@ If \var{prefix} is specified, the file name will begin with that
prefix; otherwise, a default prefix is used.
If \var{dir} is specified, the file will be created in that directory;
otherwise, a default directory is used.
otherwise, a default directory is used. The default directory is chosen
from a platform-dependent list, but the user of the application can control
the directory location by setting the \var{TMPDIR}, \var{TEMP} or \var{TMP}
environment variables. There is thus no guarantee that the generated
filename will have any nice properties, such as not requiring quoting when
passed to external commands via \code{os.popen()}.
If \var{text} is specified, it indicates whether to open the file in
binary mode (the default) or text mode. On some platforms, this makes