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From:	"Eddelbuettel, Dirk" <Dirk DOT Eddelbuettel AT nesbittburns DOT com>
To:	"'E. S. Venkatraman'" <venkat AT biosta DOT mskcc DOT org>,
	cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject:	RE: Installin CYGWIN
Date:	Fri, 18 Jun 1999 15:32:19 -0400
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		 When I execute Cygwin B20 from the start menu 
		I get a window with a single line

		     bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!

		However the window does not let me type any command let
alone use
		"mkdir -p /tmp" to create the tmp directory.  I have
searched all the 
		istallation instructions and FAQs and couldn't find any
answer.

It is hidden somewhere.  Just decide on where you want to have the Unix /
directory. I choose C:\My Documents\. 
Then, inside a bash shell, do 

	mount c:\mydocu~1  /

Now you have /. Create other directories at leisure, or mount existing ones.
Ie, I have

	mount c:\TEMP /tmp

or simply do

	cd /; mkdir /tmp

The one thing to mention is C:\TEMP mounted as /TEMP to make non-cygwin
programs and cygwin programs cooperate. Ie Gnuplot sees  C:\TEMP\foo.dat
whereas Octave calls it /TEMP/foo.dat.   Somewhat ugly, but works...

~> df                                                                    
Filesystem         1024-blocks  Used Available Capacity Mounted on
c:\mydocu~1\usr      6297448 2758576  3538872     44%   /usr
c:\mydocu~1\home     6297448 2758576  3538872     44%   /home
C:\mydocu~1\bin      6297448 2758576  3538872     44%   /bin
c:\TEMP              6297448 2758576  3538872     44%   /TEMP
c:\mydocu~1          6297448 2758576  3538872     44%   /




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