Temporary file usage in Windows 95

Detailed Description:

Typical Symptoms:

LANSA for Windows install takes a disproportionate amount of time. Executing *PLUGIN from the LANSA Folder seems to hang or goes very slowly. General system performance is bad.  Programs hang i.e. stop responding.

Windows 95 uses the environment variables TEMP and/or TMP to hold the path names for files used as temporary work areas. There must be at least 5 megabytes of free space on the drive(s) on which these files reside for the LANSA for Windows install program to execute. Generally, irrespective of whether you are running LANSA or not you should make sure that the drives on which your temporary files reside have more than 10 megabytes of free space. The general rule is for optimum performance, the more the better. An indication that something is wrong here is when the LANSA for Windows install runs very slowly. When this happens you should check you TEMP and TMP environment variables. You do this by typing "SET" at an MS-DOS prompt. You can relocate these files by issuing "SET TEMP/TMP=<d>:<filename>" where <d> is a drive with adequate space.