--- go-gnome.sh.current	Thu Aug 24 21:41:23 2000
+++ go-gnome.sh	Thu Aug 24 21:53:40 2000
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@
 }
 
 my_uudecode () {
-   _awkprog="/tmp/uudecode.$$.awk"
+   _awkprog="${TMPDIR}/uudecode.$$.awk"
    _uudecode_out=$1
 
    rm -f ${_uudecode_out}
@@ -554,7 +554,12 @@
 # The action starts here.
 #
 
-cd /tmp
+# Trust the user's TMPDIR. Though it might be safer to insist on a new, mode 0700 dir
+if [ -z "${TMPDIR}" ]; then
+	mkdir -m 0700 /tmp/helixcode.$$ || bail_error "Please run again. Unable to make safe tmp dir"
+	TMPDIR=/tmp/helixcode.$$
+fi
+cd ${TMPDIR} || bail_error "Cannot cd to ${TMPDIR}"
 
 #
 # Step 1
@@ -710,7 +715,7 @@
 
 echo -n "==> Extracting snarf..."
 
-SNARF="/tmp/snarf.$$"
+SNARF="${TMPDIR}/snarf.$$"
 if [ $? -ne 0 ]
 then
     bail_temp
@@ -728,6 +733,7 @@
 
 fi
 
+cd ${TMPDIR} || bail_error "Cannot cd to ${TMPDIR}"
 mv $SNARF $SNARF.gz
 ${_gunzip} $SNARF.gz
 chmod +x $SNARF
@@ -791,7 +797,7 @@
 
 echo -n "==> Fetching the main installation program; please be patient..."
 
-INSTALLER="/tmp/installer.$$"
+INSTALLER="${TMPDIR}/installer.$$"
 
 if [ $PROC = i686 -o $PROC = i586 -o $PROC = i486 -o $PROC = i386 ]
 then
@@ -817,6 +823,7 @@
 # Go, go, go!
 #
 
+cd ${TMPDIR} || bail_error "Cannot cd to ${TMPDIR}"
 mv -f $INSTALLER $INSTALLER.gz
 
 ${_gunzip} $INSTALLER.gz
@@ -829,5 +836,6 @@
 echo -n "==> Cleaning up temporary files..."
 rm -f $INSTALLER
 rm -f $SNARF
-rm -f /var/tmp/rpm-*
+echo "You may want to delete files in /var/tmp whose names begin with rpm-"
+#rm -f /var/tmp/rpm-*
 echo "done."