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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-67
- From: Angelo Graziosi <angelo dot graziosi at alice dot it>
- To: Cygwin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:37:32 +0100
- Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-67
Robert Pendell wrote:
P.S. - On linux (when I tested) TEMP, TMP, and TMPDIR were not set and
patch defaulted to /tmp.
I noticed that too...
Ken Brown wrote:
That's precisely why I suggested unsetting TEMP and TMP in /etc/profile. Then things should work as in linux.
Indeed. But a question emerges: what does it happen if one starts a
Windows application, which needs TEMP or TMP, from Cygwin?
For example, GSview (*) can view ps.bz2 or pdf.bz2 files uncompressing
them into $TEMP, so it fails if TEMP is not defined, and
$ gsview foo.pdf.bz2
is broken!
This is only an example of problems which can emerge unsetting TEMP.
Ciao,
Angelo.
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