I agree that "YSTE" is unlikely the short for
"SYSTEM"; I'm going to ask the customer where it comes
from. Unfortunately, it looks like they think it comes
from us, along with the holes in cheese.

What directories does Firebird need to be present in
order to work properly, assuming we do not change any
settings and use defaults?

Thank you,
Yuliya

--- Ivan Grozny <mt_headed99@...> wrote:

> Yuliya -
>
> The more I look at "YSTE~1" the less I believe that
> it's an 8.3 version of System32. For starters,
> "system32" isn't more than 8 chars, and doesn't have
> any spaces, so (at least on my machine) it doesn't
> get "mangled" at all. Second, if it did get
> mangled, the mangled version should still start with
> the first letter, so it should be "SYSTE~1" - which
> is still only 7 chars long, so it's unlikely to be
> the result of normal mangling.
>
> So I'm actually thinking that you may either have a
> corrupted installer, doing dognose what, or a valid
> installer tripping over a corrupted filesystem. Has
> the customer tried Scandisk or something similar? or
> tried a different copy of the installer?
>
> That's all I can think of at the moment. HTH.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Yuliya Shulman <yuliyashulman@...>
> To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 9:05:37 AM
> Subject: Re: [firebird-support] Re: Failing to
> create Firebird DB file
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Yes, I agree. However, the customer says
> C:\Temp is
>
> there on the hard drive.
>
>
>
> Where does "C:\WINNT\system32\ YSTE~1\TEMP" come
> from,
>
> why does Firebird engine try to access it, and what
>
> does it have to do with the valye ot TEMP env. var.
> if
>
> it's not set to this folder?
>
>
>
> Yuliya
>
>
>
> --- Ivan Grozny <mt_headed99@ yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Yuliya -
>
> > That's how I set things on all the machines I take
>
> > care of - if apps are correctly written, they
> should
>
> > check before creating temp files to avoid filename
>
> > collisions (or, if they can't handle that,
> generally
>
> > they should ignore the TEMP variable and create
>
> > tempfiles in their own private subfolder).
>
> > Microsoft's default setup of having individual
> TEMP
>
> > directories for each user does not, in my
>
> > experience, avoid any problems; it simply makes it
>
> > incredibly cumbersome to keep the disk from
> filling
>
> > up with junk. If you stash all the temp files in
>
> > one place, it's easy to clean them up once in a
>
> > while. (You could do it if they were scattered,
>
> > too, but somehow nobody ever does.)
>
> >
>
> > I believe what he meant by the TEMP being set
>
> > correctly is: does the directory it points to
>
> > actually exist? If, as in your case,
> TEMP=C:\TEMP,
>
> > then C:\TEMP had better exist and be a valid
>
> > directory... otherwise, all bets are off as to
> where
>
> > apps will create their temp files. (Personally, I
>
> > always check to make sure that the folder exists,
>
> > and fall back to creating my tempfiles in a
>
> > subfolder of my app's folder, but not everyone
>
> > does.)
>
> >
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