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Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 07:39:24 -0600
From: Warren Young <warren AT etr-usa DOT com>
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To: Cygwin-L <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: standalone cygwin programs that use "/tmp" don't work
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(duplicate post -- I sent the previous one to cygapps-l by mistake)

John R. McPherson wrote:
 >
 > Other than forcing users to create a "X:\\tmp" directory (or doing this
 > during installation) or modifying the source code for these 3rd-party
 > packages, is there any way to get the dll to use windows's %TEMP%
 > or %TMPDIR% environment variables?

You need to look into the way Cygwin handles the mount table.  For your
purposes, it would probably be enough to simply set up a mount for /tmp
to point to the user's %TEMP% during your normal installation process.



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