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Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 16:19:31 -0600
From: "Daniel Luecking" <luecking AT uark DOT edu>
Organization: University of Arkansas
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Subject: Re: bash startup
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mike friedrichs wrote:
> 
> sorry it took so long to reply.  my employer sent me out of country for a
> while.
> 
> but, i created tmp directories in all of my drives, works ok now. still
> having problems understanding why tmp directories have to be created in all
> drives.
> 

They don't. You should instead set the TMPDIR variable so it points to a
particular disk. That is, use something like TMPDIR=c:/tmp instead of
TMPDIR=/tmp. 

> > >   TMPDIR=/tmp
> > >   export CVSROOT EDITOR CDPATH TMPDIR
> >
> > That's your problem, right there: TMPDIR is set to "/tmp".  If you
> > don't have "/tmp" on each and every drive on your system, pipes and
> > other commands which use temporary files won't work.

I think Eli was trying to tell you to change the line in the startup
file rather than telling you to put /tmp directories everywhere. That
would be murder to arrange for all floppies, for example.


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Dan Luecking                           Dept. of Mathematical Sciences
luecking AT comp DOT uark DOT edu                 University of Arkansas
http://comp.uark.edu/~luecking/        Fayetteville, AR 72101