diff -ur slang-1.4.6.orig/examples/assoc.sl slang-1.4.6/examples/assoc.sl
--- slang-1.4.6.orig/examples/assoc.sl	Tue Oct  8 00:36:22 2002
+++ slang-1.4.6/examples/assoc.sl	Sat Oct 12 10:55:52 2002
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 % This example illustrates the use of associative arrays.  
 % The function 'analyse_file' counts the number of occurrences of each word
 % in a specified file.  Once the file has been read in, it writes out
-% the list of words and number of occurrences to the file /tmp/counts.log
+% the list of words and number of occurrences to the file counts.log
 
 define analyse_file (file)
 {
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
    keys = keys[i];
    values = values[i];
 
-   fp = fopen ("/tmp/count.log", "w");
+   fp = fopen ("counts.log", "w");
    % The default array_sort for Int_Type is an ascending sort.  We want the 
    % opposite.
    for (i = n-1; i >= 0; i--)
diff -ur slang-1.4.6.orig/modules/varray.sl slang-1.4.6/modules/varray.sl
--- slang-1.4.6.orig/modules/varray.sl	Tue Oct  8 00:36:22 2002
+++ slang-1.4.6/modules/varray.sl	Sat Oct 12 10:56:56 2002
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 static variable x = [1:1000.0:1.0];
 
 % and write it to disk
-static variable file = "/tmp/varray_example.dat";
+static variable file = "varray_example.dat";
 static variable fp = fopen (file, "wb");
 if (fp == NULL)
 {