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Mumit Khan wrote: > > On Fri, 19 Jan 2001 Chuck DOT Irvine AT mail DOT sprint DOT com wrote: > > > Just curious - why might the setting of TEMP make a difference? Thanks, > > anyway, though. > > It makes a difference for some tools such as patch which creates a > temporary file. The default TEMP points to /cygdrive/c/WINNT/Temp on > say a NT or Win2k box which is by default textmode, and patch output > then adds unexpected ^Ms. I personally set TMPDIR and TEMP to /tmp > in .bashrc to avoid these little issues. > A few minor corrections. You've been away too long. The TEMP variable is converted by Cygwin to a POSIX path on startup. Typically in is set to C:\Temp which gets converted to /cygdrive/c/temp. Historically the /cygdrive pseudo mount point would be registered to process in text mode regardless of whether or not you chose UNIX line endings. Today, setup registers the file processing mode based on what you choose, UNIX or DOS. Setup also creates a /etc/profile file that unsets TMPDIR and TMP but not TEMP. If the variables are not set the programs default to /tmp anyway so I added a unset of TEMP to my /etc/profile. > Doesn't make a difference for diff, which doesn't use temporary files. > Didn't know the inner workings of diff. I suppose Chuck's problem could also be a non-Cygwin diff program. Cheers, Earnie. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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