PAR::Environment

Users should set PAR_GLOBAL_TEMP instead. PAR_TEMP is calculated from a variety of other variables. See the NOTES section in the pod for PAR.pm for a complete description of how the calculation proceeds. PAR_TEMP, once calculated, is used as the location where PAR stores its extracted, temporary file cache.

So far the temp dir has been based on the current value of $ENV{TEMP}.
+ What if
we want the temp dir to be some specific place for our application, re
+gardless
of system values ?

        C:\Par>set PAR_GLOBAL_TEMP=c:\Par\temp

        C:\Par>demo.exe a b c
        My basename is demo
        $0 = C:\Par\demo.exe
        My args are: a b c
        My @INC is: c:\Par\temp/inc/lib c:\Par\temp/inc CODE(0xdb2718)
+ .

        I am a PAR package
        I am a binary file
        I am running as '$0 @ARGV'
                C:\Par\demo.exe a b c

        My temp dir is
                c:\Par\temp
                and it will NOT be deleted after the script finishes
        A copy of this script was extracted as
                C:\Par\temp\d2f130a4.pl

        PAR environment:
        PAR_0=C:\Par\temp\d2f130a4.pl
        PAR_ARGC=4
        PAR_ARGV_0=demo.exe
        PAR_ARGV_1=a
        PAR_ARGV_2=b
        PAR_ARGV_3=c
        PAR_GLOBAL_CLEAN=1
        PAR_GLOBAL_TEMP=c:\Par\temp
        PAR_INITIALIZED=2
        PAR_PROGNAME=C:\Par\demo.exe
        PAR_SPAWNED=1
        PAR_TEMP=c:\Par\temp

        C:\Par>

PAR_TEMP is set to PAR_GLOBAL_TEMP, but PAR_GLOBAL_CLEAN is overidden.
+ If you
chose a fixed temp dir, you also clean up after yourself. There is cur
+rently
no way to define a fixed temp dir inside the PAR package, and since te
+mp dir
creation is done before the script runs, PAR_GLOBAL_TEMP must be set b
+efore
running the PAR package.
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If I do need to go in and change the guts, I will post what I need specific help with once I fumble around a bit more.
-Bio.

No...

I only really speak unix, but from the shell you can PAR_TEMP=/my/location executable.elf2, I'm sure there's a way to set an environment variable in win32...

It's some thing like set PAR_TEMP=blahblahblah I imagine.

-Paul

Thanks again for your help.

For win32 you are 100% right it is: SET PAR_TEMP=C:\____. However, one more question.

Do I set the envi var on the machine doing the packing, or the machine doing the unpacking?

I really appriciate the help!
-Bio.

---- Even a blind squirrel finds a nut sometimes.