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On 09 Dec 2002, Vince Hoffman <Vince DOT Hoffman AT uk DOT circle DOT com>
wrote: 

> I'm intrigued, where would you have it point then ? c:\temp
> ? c:\tmp ? (i dont have either of these on various of the
> computers i have installed cygwin on.)

Probably the same as pointed to by the 'DOS' TMP/TEMP environ 
variable.

>      I suppose "ln -s `echo $TEMP` /tmp" would work but i

ISTR trying this, or something similar, some months ago, but 
Cygwin insisted on restoring the directory when I restarted 
(whether it was when I restarted bash or the computer I don't 
recall).

> I would have thought this should be a user choice
> rather than a default.

Yup, that sounds the best way to me.

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