Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 12:43:30 +0200 (WET)
From: Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
cc: Ralph Proctor <ralphgpr AT shadow DOT net>, Martin Str|mberg <ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se>,
        djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: How to locate djgpp.env?
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On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> 
> On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Andris Pavenis wrote:
> 
> > Therefore I suggested to modify DJGPP.ENV to tell TAR not to use ramdrive.
> 
> This can only be done by the users, and then they should set TMPDIR in 
> the environment.
> 
> DJGPP.ENV cannot handle this, since you have no idea what kind of drive 
> is the one where %DJGPP% points.  It can be a CD-ROM, for example.
> 

Unfortunatelly it's so. But anyway I think there is possible fix
also for this situation. Of course it will work only if at least on 
of TMP and(or) TEMP is defined. But I think too many other things
will be broken when they are not defined

[tar]
+TMP=%TEMP%
TMPDIR=%TMP%