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RE: bash and temp


On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Dave Korn wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cygwin-talk-owner On Behalf Of One Angry User
> > Sent: 19 January 2005 16:28
> > To: Talk Amongst Yourselves
> > Subject: RE: bash and temp
> >
> > On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Dave Korn wrote:
> >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: cygwin-talk-owner On Behalf Of Guy Przytula
> > > > Sent: 19 January 2005 01:31
> > >
> > > > when opening bash window I get : warning: could not find
> > /tmp, please
> > > > create!
> > > > I can see different tmp directories below cygwin.
> > > > Any specific bash is looking for ?
> > > > Any help is accepted
> > > > Best Regards, Guy Przytula
> > >
> > >   How dare you make an on-topic post on this list!?  That's off-topic!
> > >   [snip on-topic reply]
> >
> > ...And you forgot to redirect the reply to the main list, thereby
> > polluting the off-topic list even more with an on-topic reply to an
> > on-topic question.  I'm onto you, DaveK!
>
>   No, wait a minute... surely if the question was off-topic, and my
> reply was on-topic to something off-topic, that makes my reply
> off-topic, and therefore on-topic?

Sophistry will get you nowhere!  The law of the double negative will
eventually catch up with you.  And then, there's DeMorgan's law...

OAU


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