Actually you can have a permanent file and a temporary file with the same
name and access each independently.

:BUILD FOO
:BUILD FOO;TEMP

:FILE FOO1=FOO,OLD
:FILE FOO2=FOO,OLDTEMP

*FOO1 will access the permanent file, *FOO2 will access the temporary
file.  You cannot, as you point, save the temporary FOO file as a permanent
file unless you rename it.

At 12:36 PM 11/24/2003, Brian Donaldson wrote:
>The bad, sad news is if you want your program to process a file as a TEMP
>file you must ensure that filename is unique and does not exist in the perm
>directory.
>
>The PERM file must be purged before running the program and at the end the
>TEMP file can be closed in the PERM directory if you have a file equation
>something like:
>
>file tempfile;temp;save

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