Location of temporary batch files

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I've just discovered that when Opus runs an MS-DOS Batch function, it creates a more or less randomly named batch file in C:\Documents and Settings(user name)\Local Settings\Temp. Is there any way to specify another location for the batch file?

The reason for asking is that I'm experimenting with a firewall program (Online Armor) and am constantly getting popups from it asking for permission for the batch file to run. I can't tell the firewall to always let the batch file run because the batch file has a different name each time.

I can exclude firewall protection on a specific directory. In the Online Armor forums, the opinion has been offered that excluding the ...\Temp directory is a bad idea, but the implication has been made that it might be acceptable to exclude some other specific directory if Opus could be made to create the batch files there.

2

Can you mark in OA Directory Opus in such a way, that everything it produces is considered safe?

3

Or you could put your commands in a basic MSDOS batch file that has a set name and run that from a button.

4

Tried that. Didn't seem to work.

5

Anything I write does have a set name, but it appears that Opus creates a somewhat randomly named bat file which invokes my file.

It's this Opus created bat file that the firewall is complaining about.

6

Opus only creates temporary batch files for MS-DOS Batch buttons.

So you can put your batch code into a .bat file somewhere and make a normal (not MS-DOS Batch type) button in Opus which runs that batch file.

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[quote="leo"]Opus only creates temporary batch files for MS-DOS Batch buttons.

So you can put your batch code into a .bat file somewhere and make a normal (not MS-DOS Batch type) button in Opus which runs that batch file.[/quote]

Right, that works.

Now the only question is why I chose MS-DOS Batch functions in the first place!

(No answer expected).