Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/1998/08/31/09:50:14
On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, RJ vd Boon wrote:
> hmm, I don't think this will help very much, if the user (as I do)
> points his %TMP% and/or %TEMP% to the ramdrive, or maybe doesn't even
> set his %TEMP% at all (dos < v7 doesn't set %TEMP% to something, if
> you don't specify it, right?)
I didn't think this alternative would solve all the cases: that's
impossible. The questions is: does it solve more cases than the current
setup?
People who change the setting of their TEMP and TMP generally know what
they are doing, and they also read the docs. For example, README.dos
from tar112b.zip says this:
5. WARNING!!! Working with large compressed archives needs a lot of
temporary free disk space, since `tar' invokes `gzip' via a pipe,
which on MS-DOS is simulated with a disk file. If you set the
TMPDIR environment variable to a RAM disk, make sure you have
enough space there for the uncompressed archive. (For unpacking
.tar.gz files, the size of uncompressed archive can be estimated
by multiplying the compressed size by 4.) When in doubt, point
TMPDIR to your hard drive before invoking `tar'. If there's not
enough space on the drive where TMPDIR points, `tar' will
complain about unexpected end-of-file (depending on whether you
are creating or extracting files, the message might actually come
from `gzip').
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