Date:	Wed, 2 Sep 1998 10:52:34 +0300 (IDT)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To:	mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk
cc:	rjvdboon AT cs DOT vu DOT nl, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: How to locate djgpp.env?
In-Reply-To:	<199809020025.UAA07915@delorie.com>
Message-ID:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.980902105204.517G-100000@is>
MIME-Version:	1.0

On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, George Foot wrote:

>     [tar]
>     +TARTMP=%TMPDIR%
>     TMPDIR=%TARTMP%

I don't like the idea of introducing gratuitous new features into
existing programs.  TARTMP is a variable that is not part of Tar
functionality on other platforms, and IMHO, it's a bad idea to have a
program behave differently on different platforms.

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