Comment 3 for bug 12030

On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 10:33:00AM +0100, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> > > Did you contact the original authors, Darren Hiebert and Neil
> > > Schemenauer?
> >
> > No, I didn't. I was not sure if they were still active. Do you want me to
> > forward this?
>
> Yes. They are the authors, thus I hesitate to change their work without
> at least trying to contact them.

Ok. Will do.

>
> > > I wonder if there isn't a shorter method. The handling of the temp file
> > > becomes more than half the script this way.
> >
> > Actually, there is, you could remove the lines that try to use a temporary
> > file in a temporary directory (below the comments) and just abort with a
> > "Cannot create temporary file" message if tmp_tagfile (or OUTFILE) are
> > 'none'.
>
> So there would be a few (old?) systems where the script won't work?

Correct. Those that don't have mktemp or tempfile. These should be
available in most Linux distributions but I'm not sure about their
availability in other UNIX systems (I believe mktemp is available in
Solaris, in HP-UX and in Tru64 but not in AIX, for example)

Regards

Javier