Re: Reports for Windows and Temporary file problem

From: Greg Rogalski <grogalsk_at_oracle.com>
Date: 31 Jan 1995 00:17:52 GMT
Message-ID: <GROGALSK.95Jan30161753_at_bresson.oracle.com>

In article <3gembl$5no_at_Owl.nstn.ca> quinn_at_atl.sofkin.ca (Paul Quinn) writes:

 Paul> We are attempting to install the CDE run-time components of both Forms
 Paul> 4.0 and Reports 2.0 on a Novell file server. The Reports Installation
 Paul> Manual suggests setting the DOS environment TEMP variable to a local
 Paul> directory for performance reasons, and/or if the network drive is
 Paul> read-only to the user (which it is). We have set the TEMP variable to
 Paul> point at the directory C:\TEMP\, but when the Forms application
 Paul> attempts to run a report it aborts with the error message 'REP-0118
 Paul> Unable to create temporary file'.  Oracle's docs say that means one of:

 Paul> (1) You can't write to the device (Why we set TEMP in the first place).
 Paul> (2) You don't have enough space to create the file (Okay, the C: drive

 Paul> does only have 4 MB free, but you need more???!) (3) A temporary file  Paul> which can't be deleted already exists (I don't think so...).

 Paul> Does the TEMP solution really redirect the creation of temporary files?

 Paul> Do I need to set something in ORACLE.INI?

Yes. You need to set the REPORTS_TMP variable in ORACLE.INI which tells Reports where to put the temporary file. Set it to C:\TEMP\ in your case. Reports doesn't look at the TEMP variable by default.

-greg

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	      Greg Rogalski, CDE Tools Development, Oracle USA.
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Received on Tue Jan 31 1995 - 01:17:52 CET