here's a working example of those API calls:

Private Declare Function GetTempPath Lib "kernel32" Alias "GetTempPathA" _
                        (ByVal nBufferLength As Long, _
                        ByVal lpBuffer As String) As Long

Private Declare Function GetTempFileName Lib "kernel32" Alias "GetTempFileNameA" _
                        (ByVal lpszPath As String, _
                        ByVal lpPrefixString As String, _
                        ByVal wUnique As Long, _
                        ByVal lpTempFileName As String) As Long

Private Sub Form_Load()
Dim sFileName As String
Dim sTempDir As String
Dim stemp As String
Dim sFilePrefix As String

sTempDir = Space(100)

Call GetTempPath(CLng(100), sTempDir)

MsgBox Trim(sTempDir)

sFilePrefix = "JDP"  'change this to whatever you want. it can be blank too.

'Create a buffer
sFileName = String(260, 0)
'Get a temporary filename
GetTempFileName sTempDir, sFilePrefix, 0, sFileName
'Remove all the unnecessary chr$(0)'s
sFileName = Left$(sFileName, InStr(1, sFileName, Chr$(0)) - 1)
    
MsgBox sFileName

End Sub

i couldn't find my working example, so i just wrote it again.  this also uses the
GetTempPath - which get's the system's temp directory.  you can supply any path you
want though.

good luck,

john

--- mahesh.kava@p... wrote:
> Thanks to john & kim 
> i am now navigating to the url getting the text & displaying it in a
> notepad.john,can u tell me the name of the api which creates temporary
> files.
> regds
> Mahesh

John Pirkey 
MCSD 
John@S... 
http://www.stlvbug.org