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Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 19:51:48 -0400
From: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT net>
Organization: Two pounds of chaos and a pinch of salt.
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
CC: RJ vd Boon <rjvdboon AT cs DOT vu DOT nl>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: How to locate djgpp.env?
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > [1] Can't the preamble be more flexible? I guess putting a little
> > expansion like bash does, in the code is asking a little too much I
> > think. I mean something like: +TMPDIR=${%TEMP%:-%DJDIR%/tmp} which
> > isn't possible (yet;-).
> 
> Doesn't the following do it?
> 
>   +TEMP=%DJDIR%/tmp
>   TMPDIR=%TEMP%

That still nukes people who set TMPDIR explicitly.  I suggest the
following:

  +TEMP=%DJDIR%/tmp
  +TMPDIR=%TEMP%

This way, people get the results they want no matter which variables
they set.

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