[Starkit] where are .dll files written to?

[Steve Blinkhorn]

> 
> Hello,
> 
> On several systems I ran starpacks/kits at, those files are written to the temporary folder of the 
> current working environment, which is in most cases the current user's temp directory, to which the 
> environment variable TEMP points to.
> 
> Just do a
> 
> cd %temp%
> 
> at the command prompt; this should lead you to the right place.
> 

Thank you for such a prompt and helpful response.   What I find on a
Win2000 Professional box is that the files are copied to %temp% as
TCL???.tmp, and deleted on normal exit.   But they persist if the
application is crashed out rather than exiting cleanly.

I am no expert on Windows internals, so I do not know whether these
files need to remain accessible throughout the runtime of an application
or whether they are loaded into memory just once - in which case it would
seem sensible for them to be deleted immediately rather than only on normal
exit from the application.   But I imagine that this is a matter for
the Tcl core rather than just Starkits.

-- 
Steve Blinkhorn <steve at prd.co.uk>