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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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(*) http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/get49.htm

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