diff --git a/basis/io/files/temp/temp-docs.factor b/basis/io/files/temp/temp-docs.factor
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+USING: help.markup help.syntax ;
+IN: io.files.temp
+
+ARTICLE: "io.files.temp" "Temporary files"
+"Pathnames relative to Factor's temporary files directory:"
+{ $subsection temp-directory }
+{ $subsection temp-file } ;
+
+ABOUT: "io.files.temp"
diff --git a/basis/io/files/temp/temp.factor b/basis/io/files/temp/temp.factor
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+! Copyright (C) 2008 Slava Pestov, Doug Coleman.
+! See http://factorcode.org/license.txt for BSD license.
+USING: kernel io.pathnames io.directories ;
+IN: io.files.temp
+
+: temp-directory ( -- path )
+    "temp" resource-path dup make-directories ;
+
+: temp-file ( name -- path )
+    temp-directory prepend-path ;
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