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Re: the direcectory named TEMP or TMP
- To: Bobby McNulty Junior <bmcnultyjunior at yahoo dot com>
- Subject: Re: the direcectory named TEMP or TMP
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna at vinschen dot de>
- Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2000 10:30:01 +0200
- CC: cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <20000805233943.9778.qmail@web5503.mail.yahoo.com>
- Reply-To: cygwin <cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com>
Bobby McNulty Junior wrote:
>
> Do you still have to have a TEMP directory before
> starting Cygwin?
> I read the docs(outdated) and it gave the information
> about a TEMP directory.
> Bobby
Cygwin itself doesn't need /tmp (nor does it ever need it) but many
UNIX tools need it. Bash for example still warns the user if it can't
find /tmp.
However, if you use the current setup tool, it creates /tmp by itself.
Corinna
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