"Even if it was not all you could do would be to effectively rename it within its current dir."

This would be acceptable. What I'm looking to do more or less is keep the temp file between sessioned runs. If the file is "kept" "processed" whatever, then it would get copied somewhere, if not destroyed at the end of session.

The files are potentially large which is why I would like to avoid the copy. It's potentially many session running at once as well. I could just copy the parent module, change the name and hack it to use named temp files but then there's maintainence problems, etc everything there's a new release.

It just seems wasteful to copy what I already have in this particular case.

-Lee

"To be civilized is to deny one's nature."